BLUE REVOLVER
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.51.
- Length
- 2.5h 42.3h to 100%
- Value
- $6.00/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 916 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.51 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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
About the game
Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 46 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $8.51 BANGER line 39 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ZeroRanger ($11.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Savant - Ascent ($0.99, scores 72).
More about BLUE REVOLVER
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 313 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
2.5 hours to finish it, 42 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 17 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 19, 04:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A great shmup for those of any skill level with the genre, plus a super satisfying set of scoring mechanics. Flexible difficulty means you're not likely to spiral multiple deaths back to back, nice for 1CC runs. Each character has a few different special weapons, some of them are really fun to use, like any variant of "big laser" for example. Extremely good for $15.
2 more reviews
Tried this game as an absolute shmup beginner and fell in love <3 It has a really nice difficulty curve, lots of different modes and ship configurations to play around with and a banger soundtrack :)
Blue Revolver is one of the best games I've ever played!!! This game singlehandedly catapulted me into the shmup genre, and got me to play so many awesome games I'd have never found otherwise. It took a brutal 16 months of getting my ass beat, but I'm finally standing at 100% completion - and 22nd place on the global leaderboard. What a journey, oh my god. Aesthetically? This game has CHARACTER, especially for a...
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Cite this score
BLUE REVOLVER scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/439490/blue-revolverReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.