Vanquish
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $3.28/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. It has been discounted 56 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 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).
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 12 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 715 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 568 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 859 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, 18 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 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.
The drop-off
78% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
12 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I really liked the part when Jet Boost Sam said gimme some cigarettes and I'll thrive ANYWHERE
Cigarettes, Exo suits, Robots, Laser weapons, High octane action and PlatinumGames. What more could one ask for?
Oh Vanquish, how you take me back to just being a girl borrowing her Dad's XBOX again. I appreciate it more now of course, seeing that I actually understand what I'm doing instead of running around shooting walls. Update: First play through now complete, thoroughly enjoyed. Surprised myself with my stats as I'm not usually one to play these kinds of games, I'm majorly in 'noob' territory here. Regardless, this was...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Vanquish scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/460810/vanquishThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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