ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA
Fair · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($1.99)
- Last discount ended
- 14 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
First appearing in arcades in 1981, the masterpiece GALAGA finally comes to Steam! Move the fighter left and right and destroy the waves of incoming aliens!
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2016. 66 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kero Blaster ($9.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Contra Anniversary Collection ($19.99, scores 34).
None of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 496 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
0.8 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
59% 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
What players say
proud 100+ hours on this. galaga is like drugs except cheaper, though ts is essentially free if you have any computer know how
Every enemy formation keeps you on your toes, rewarding quick reactions and precise movement.
An arcade classic! Might be a bit biased, but personally my favorite arcade game of all time. Playing on keyboard an mouse feels a bit clunky compared to how it's supposed to be played (i.e. joystick and fire button), but using a controller is a close second. As an achievement hunter, I like that the milestones actually provide a bit of a challenge to work towards other than just beating my own high scores...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/403430/arcade-game-series-galagaReviews 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 1.
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