Overload
Fair · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$29.99Fair
On its price record
$7.75BANGER
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $3.66/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A new six-degree-of-freedom shooter with intuitive controls, amazing lighting and graphics. From the creators of Descent, Overload is the best zero-gravity robot-blasting combat ever.
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 $5.99, set in June 2022. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 10 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $7.75 BANGER line 18 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 27 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alien: Isolation ($39.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats STAR WARS™: Dark Forces Remaster ($29.99, scores 54).
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 20 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 321 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 8.2 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 2.4 times as long.
The drop-off
58% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On an 8.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 12:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Amazing renewal of Descent. Nails that chunky, satisfying, robot-pulverizing loop they first pioneered. As a Descent fan, well done. On the other side of the ledger: In terms of the campaign level design, I wish they had pushed the format further than following the original so closely. My favorite moments were some of the more complex room and cave designs, where constant maneuver of different kinds and tactical...
Currently the game has too many bugs. TrackIR and Tobii do not seem to work. Not for changing the camera angle that is. Control wise, you will randomly loose the capability to select menu options. There are ways to regain control, but it involves starting the game again with ALL controllers disconnected, and wipe out the control inputs in game and set them again. (Until the glitch decides to come back mid...
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Cite this score
Overload scores 61/100 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/448850/overloadReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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