ESCHATOS
Fair · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. A BANGER at $3.83, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2015 (lowest $5.99, Apr 2024).
- Length
- 1.9h 5.8h to 100%
- Value
- $7.89/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 316 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.83 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
An alien menace has descended on Earth! Defend the world from UFO invasion in this superb arcade shooter from Qute. Use your weapons effectively, deflect enemy bullets with your shield, and recapture the Moon from alien infestation!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
69 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $3.83. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. On the same math Sky Force Anniversary ($9.99, scores 64) and Swarmlake ($4.99, scores 69) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about ESCHATOS
1 of the 210 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 1.9 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
87% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 12:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Play Eschatos. Finally got my normal all clear, the game owns. Really nice pacing, the shield mechanic is elegantly designed, the difficulty on normal is a good challenge for shmup newbies like myself, and the soundtrack is absolutely unskippable. Can't recommend this enough. Play Eschatos.
2 more reviews
This game rules. It came to my attention when the developers of ZeroRanger cited it as an influence in an interview. It's a non-bullet-hell shmup (fast bullets, launched in learnable patterns) where you have three weapons that you can use at any time, one of which is a shield with a regenerating meter. The graphics are "serviceable," but they get a lot done with a little -- notably, I really appreciate the strong...
A beautiful classic shmup close in caliber to Mushi and Crimzon. The space invader part is iconic. It comes with 2 modes (original and advanced) and various difficulty levels (gets really hairy at high difficulty). Also a solid port (quick restart, leader board, replay, stage select, ...). The only important feature missing is boss (and mid-boss) select in order to practice them. Nevertheless, a must have and play.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ESCHATOS scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/378770/eschatosReviews 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.