Battlevoid: Harbinger
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB 3D OpenGL 2.0 Compatible video card, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles. You are a young commander venturing out into enemy territories, to unknown galaxies, never knowing what you will face as you jump out from hyperspace.
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
The value story
April 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 94 in the 11 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Among the games that feel like it, FTL: Faster Than Light ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Between the Stars ($29.99, scores 35).
This site sampled 293 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
41% start to 2% 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 05:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Battlevoid: Harbinger scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/396480/battlevoid-harbingerReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Oct 1.
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