SMASHING THE BATTLE
Skip · Action · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 7.1h 14.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.69/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 575 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1565 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
In the year 2085, a huge multiplex construction site becomes a victim of a massive-scale hacking incident. Due to the hack, the construction robots start to attack the workers onsite.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTS 450, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 40 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 224 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Akane ($4.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Book of Yog Idle RPG (free, scores 15).
More about SMASHING THE BATTLE
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
23% start to 23% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
A very fun, simple and clean game that doesn't overstay it's welcome with a likeable enough cast of characters that are very nice to look at. It also has plenty to keep you occupied after you finish the story as well Sounded off with a pleasant and hopeful happy ending. I really enjoyed my time with this one, if you like action games and big tiddied anime women, this is worth giving a shot. My one complaint is that...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Smashing The Battle is a simple game and that simplicity captured me. You move from level to level and destroy enemy robots. You collect scraps and upgrade your character. There are 2 protagonists and each one of them has her own unique levels and story. There's a story to follow, but I don't care about the story in a videogame so I didn't pay much attention. The game is fast paced. Levels last 3 to 6 minutes. You...
If I could give a bigger thumbs down, I would. Simply put, yes, this is a game, and yes, it is playable. And that's where the positives stop. The story is terrible, the dialogue is atrocious, the character designs are just gooner-bait, the gameplay is hyper-repetitive, the level designs have zero variation, and the achievements will take you hours upon hours of playing what is essentially the same level over and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SMASHING THE BATTLE scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/467930/smashing-the-battleReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.