Neon Hardcorps

Neon Hardcorps

Skip · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $1.99.

Cost per hour▼
$6.63/hr
Reviews▼
46% of 315
Genre rank
Top 100% Action

Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour

Why
Reviews hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
0.3h
To 100%
0.6h 2.0x the story

Price and sales

Sales
74 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$0.49 July 2016
Sale every
45d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.01 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1 now
Cheaper than
82% of its genre
Better reviewed
1% of its genre
Price and player charts

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 27, 00:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 74 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.

It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Satellite Reign ($29.99, scores 29) outscores it, and so does Party Hard 2 ($19.99, scores 38). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Neon Hardcorps

The main story runs 0.3 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 2.0 times as long.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 3 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

Holding it back
Cost per hour$6.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 50% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 43 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

What players say

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ايان ( ayanokoji )Recommendedafter 4.5hJul 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.3hJan 2024Read on Steam
It's a Hotline Miami like game; a fast-paced top-down shooter where you move area to area. It looks promising from the screenshots, but sadly it's very unpolished and riddled with issues. It starts right at the tutorial - if you destroy the crate before being prompted to, you'll soft lock yourself and have to restart. There are much worse issues, though, such as the extreme lag spikes - only 10 minutes in and I got...
Scariest ChrisNot recommendedafter 4.0hJun 2025Read on Steam

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

About the game

Neon Hardcorps is a fast paced top down action shooter, inspired by games such as Contra, Metal Slug, Super Turrican, Cybernator, Realm and Doom Troopers.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 72 MB of memory, 128mb Video Memory or higher. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Neon Hardcorps scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/454200/neon-hardcorps
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Reviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSergey Dovganovskiy
PublisherBack To Basics Gaming
GenreAction
Released2016
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate