Mighty Gunvolt
Skip · Action · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.7h 2.3h to 100%
- Value
- $7.13/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 435 positive
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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
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About the game
Take control of one of three playable characters (Gunvolt, Ekoro, and Beck) as you blast your way past the baddies in stage after stage of side-scrolling action! Each stage ends with a boss encounter. Defeat the boss to complete the stage.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce), 512 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 83 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 46 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition ($19.99, scores 26).
More about Mighty Gunvolt
Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 202 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
0.7 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
65% start to 32% 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
What players say
A cute 8-bit crossover platformer game with Gunvolt, Mighty No.9 and Gal Gun. I would've enjoyed the game, if it weren't for the atrocious invincibility. It feels like they don't exist, with you immediately getting damaged the moment it activates AND wares up. This just soured my experience and I cannot, in good faith recommend this game because of this one glaring issue. I couldn't even beat the extra stage's...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is insanely mediocre, it's a fine Mega Man clone but it has heaps of problems and is definitely not worth $5. The 3 playable characters are very similar but each have their own unique moves that contribute nothing to gameplay besides making certain bosses and areas impossible. Gunvolt is the most fun one here and he is incredibly basic, he has a very short jump that can turn into a double jump, and he has...
Super short, but fun little Megaman-like game. Would recommend if you've got a couple of hours to kill.
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Cite this score
Mighty Gunvolt 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/394600/mighty-gunvoltReviews 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.