TWINKLE STAR SPRITES
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 1h 23.2h to 100%
- Value
- $7.99/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 279 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
“TWINKLE STAR SPRITES ”, a competitive 2D top-down view scrolling shooter released on NEOGEO MVS in 1996, departs for new adventures on the Steam gaming platform!Master your shots, and aim for the magical Twinkle Star”!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 49 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bleed ($4.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition ($19.99, scores 26).
More about TWINKLE STAR SPRITES
Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1 hours. Doing everything runs 23, 23 times as long.
The drop-off
55% start to 20% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 16:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of the most charming and ingeniously constructed games I've ever played, I love Twinkle Star Sprites like I love few other things. Playing it is a joyful, heart-warming experience. I wish only for a modern remake, or a successor in the same spirit, but it would be difficult to top this. Even most of its flaws, such as the "Engrish" translation and egregious slowdown, only add to its charm for me. I cannot fault...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is one of SNK's most creative and addictive mashups - a shooter that plays like a fighting game. At its core, it's a classic vertical scrolling shooter with that tight 8/16-bit-era feel, but the twist is brilliant: you're battling side-by-side against another player, sending attacks back and forth like a versus fighter. It shouldn't work as well as it does, but it absolutely does. The mechanics are easy to pick...
◎ - Achievements - Leaderboards × - No gamepad support - A lot of lag - It crashes frequently - You can change language but there's no Japanese support Overall: It's a shame to take a masterpiece and release it in this state and after 10 years of being on Steam, it's still not fixed. I appreciate the leaderboards and achievements, but this port still suffers from serious flaws. Buy this game on GOG, which is exactly...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
TWINKLE STAR SPRITES scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/366280/twinkle-star-spritesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.