Vanquish
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.28/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 8,060
- Critics
- 78 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 28% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.1h
- To 100%
- 20.5h 3.4x the story
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 57 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $4.99 March 2019
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 23 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 83% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Binary Domain ($14.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Quantum Break ($39.99, scores 51).
More about Vanquish
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 12 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 723 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,169 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 869 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
6.1 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
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
What players say
If you main Beatrix in (MLBB) and Raiden (Metal Gear Rising) you will easily love this game so much. Enjoy the gameplay a lot
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Kind of tragic that this game didn't sell better. Excellent gameplay, nonsensical story. Charming voice acting! If you like Metal Gear Rising, or Bayonetta, or even Gears of War: I'd give it a shot.
Kinda fun, but hampered by ridiculous arcadey movement obstructions, vague objects, and incredibly long cut-scenes.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
PlatinumGames’ revolutionary sci-fi action shooter slide-boosts onto PC. Battle legions of future-tech enemies using a vast arsenal of weapons, including all DLC. Fully unlocked framerate and gorgeous HD resolutions up to 4K. The definitive way to play: war has accelerated.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Dx9 compliant video card with 1 GB VRAM (Nvidia GeForce 460 or AMD Radeon 5670), 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Vanquish scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/460810/vanquishReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.