DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Skip · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $49.99. Fair at $8.06, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2015 (lowest $9.99, Apr 2024).
- Length
- 0.7h 265.2h to 100%
- Value
- $71.41/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 821 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.06 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: Shader Model 2.0 Compatible, GeForce 8600GT, 1.8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 74 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78) and Jets'n'Guns Gold ($7.99, scores 69) both outscore it.
More about DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 319 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 168 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 188 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.7 hours; clearing it takes 265, which is 379 times the campaign.
The drop-off
85% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 01:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I feel duped. I should have bought the base game first, and not all the addons, but the reviews fooled me. The game has only one positive, and that is it's appealing visuals, at first glance, but now that I've played 50+ levels, including a bunch of DLC levels, I can safely say this shooter is severely flawed and not worth any price. Why: 1 The levels are near empty, and crazy repetative. 2. There are maybe 10...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
confusing, weird, unfun? there's a million options, and while the mechanics are straightforward, you just feel like you chain levels without purpose. scoring feels pointless, stage design is an afterthought, and bosses get exhausting real quick. on top of that, nothing is explained to you! you can just go in some weird chronicle mode and pick a route / area from some weird grid but none of it makes sense. there's...
had the game for years. bought off of nostalgia. can barely be bothered to hit 43 hrs so far? the level design is poor. beyond being repetative it comes down to just memorising the "correct" way to beat them, it hardly feels like bullet hell when the only way your succeeding is watching a guide that you timed to 2 seconds in advance so you know where your supposed to be.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours scores 31/100 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/377870/dariusburst-chronicle-savioursReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.