BARRIER X
Fair · Action · 2016
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.2h
- Value
- $2.49/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Direct X9.0c compatible, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
Dodge! Shoot! Go faster! Break the sound barrier in this unbelievably fast game and go straight for the first place in the leaderboard of BARRIER X!
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 $0.44, set in June 2023. It has been discounted 91 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Geometry Dash ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).
Of the 231 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 559 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.2 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
19% start to 4% rarestNo 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BARRIER X scores 65/100 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/463150/barrier-xReviews 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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