STRAFE: Gold Edition
Skip · Roguelike · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in November 2018. 62 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Heavy Bullets ($9.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition ($9.99, scores 21).
7 of the 459 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 83 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 441 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 18, 3.6 times as much.
The drop-off
39% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 11:49 UTC.
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What players say
this is cute! the tutorial kinda sold me, even though the microphone was a bit rough it was fantastic acting and a capsule trapped in time, really enjoyed the presentation!! game has lovely movement, full bhop and strafe control, you can ramp your speeds up to 600-800ups and really start to enjoy the speed, gunplay is fun but is a bit limited by the classic id-tech modifications. gore is over the top and perfect as...
EDIT: whoever made the jump map, i AM mad and would like a word with you. boomshoot game with the main focus on getting upgrades for one weapon, strafing and making a bloody mess in a randomised layout each run. a run can be about 10 minutes (blazing fast) to 40 minutes, depending on your pace. good ost, good gun feeling. challenging but fair. if you die, thats on you. got my ass kicked several times and each time i...
An extremely mediocre retro FPS. Gameplay feels a bit odd, weapons feel unrewarding to use. It's a "roguelike" but you don't get anything out of re-playing the game, it just has procedural generation and basic weapon choice. Because of randomly generated levels, sometimes you'll turn in circles trying to find the last key you need to open a door, keys items drop on the floor like any random items, so sometimes you...
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Cite this score
STRAFE: Gold Edition scores 30/100 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/442780/strafe-gold-editionReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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