Bunker Punks

Bunker Punks

Skip · Roguelike · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
3.9h
Value
$3.84/hr
Reviews
72% of 435 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 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

Holding it back
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.84/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 83 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Bunker Punks is a fast paced rogue-light FPS set in a dystopian future. Run a group of revolutionaries and raid corporate strongholds for supplies, weapons and armor. Customize your bunker, train your gang and tear down the corporate government.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8600 or equivalent, 256 MB memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

75 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, STRAFE: Gold Edition ($14.99, scores 30) beats it on value, while it beats Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition ($9.99, scores 21).

More about Bunker Punks

Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 112 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

40% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

This is a lukewarm thumbs up, borderline neutral. I don't want to be hard on the developer, because I'm pretty sure he's a one-man operation with audio/visual support after looking at the credits, but it was a pretty underwhelming experience about a year+ later when I bought the Early Access edition. Props to the dev, though, since the game is one update away from reaching 1.0, meaning Bunker Punks will do something...
gr8stalin's mustache!Recommendedafter 4.3h28 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Roguelike FPS where you raid facilities for precious loot. Maps are random generated and you can pick your next scavenge mission on the map. Each stage contains of multiple floors in which you gonna face different robots, drones, turrets etc. Between missions you can upgrade your hideout for extra bonuses like increased damage with specific type of weapon or heal your punks. Pickups disappear quickly so grab them...
👾 🅼 🅰❎👾Recommendedafter 3.1hJun 2025Read on Steam
It's the last time I bought something because of RPS recommendation. The game while interesting in concept doesn't deliver anything special. The levels are repetitive but thankfully small so you can't really get lost. But the biggest fault is in the almost non-existent animation of enemies. It doesn't telegraph if they are going to attack or not, some enemies shoot while in knockback animation which after a couple...
VonMiskNot recommendedafter 2.8h27 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Bunker Punks scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/446120/bunker-punks
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperNinja Robot Dinosaur
PublisherNinja Robot Dinosaur
GenreRoguelike
Released2018
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements36