Bit Blaster XL
BANGER · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.77/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 6,155
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 4.8h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 17
Price and sales
- Sales
- 119 on record
- Typical cut
- 51% off
- Steam low
- $0.48 February 2023
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 90% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
62% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 119 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is cheaper than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, Distant Space ($0.99, scores 58) and Planes, Bullets and Vodka ($4.99, scores 46) both come in lower.
$8.17 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Bit Blaster XL
None of the 365 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 2,939 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 18 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB +, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bit Blaster XL scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/433950/bit-blaster-xlReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.