Cruel Arena
Skip · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 1.8h 6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.55/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 310 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1565 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Cruel Arena is a classic arena survival zombie game. Face endless hordes and survive as much as you can, Through The Doodles and The Frames!! Will you do the best record among your friends?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 22 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 224 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. On the same math The Culling Of The Cows ($4.99, scores 36) and SAS: Zombie Assault 4 (free, scores 61) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Cruel Arena
1.8 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
18% start to 8% 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
What players say
This game was straight forward a grind with a massive amount of blood splatter on the walls and chickens storming you. You go and fight aliens that basically die with one shot headshot. This was the easiest part of this game. The achievements were very easy going for this game. Would recommend this game to those wanting to increase the number of completed games and straight forward achievements. Get on sale though.
1 more review, not recommended
Sometimes updates are quite unnecessary, specially in this kind of games Cruel Arena is a fast shooting game, not much to say about this game, just shooting endless hordes of zombies to earn cash to buy weapons. I played this game long time ago and i just noticed that this game has been updated with new models making it like a different game, in my opinion the first hand draw alike design was way better than the...
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Cite this score
Cruel Arena scores 17/100 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/381140/cruel-arenaReviews 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.