Space Codex
Skip · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 46, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.2h 2.1h to 100%
- Value
- $4.95/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 412 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 875 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Space Codex is a casual retro arcade minimal awesome top-down shooter featuring waves of enemy spaceships with different attacks in what is, literally, a bullet hell. To beat them, you will have power-up options available through the map. The game only gets harder. How long can you stay alive?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 78 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 51 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 125 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Cyberhunt ($4.99, scores 57) and Distant Space 2 ($0.49, scores 59) both outscore it.
More about Space Codex
Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.2 hours. Doing everything runs 2, 11 times as long.
The drop-off
8% 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
What players say
Fun little space arcade game reminding me of the yesteryears. Gameplay is smooth. UI is not buggy, other than the fact that whenever you get an achievement, the bottom right part of the screen gets glitched out. I prefer the second ship for my gameplay style and I'm close to reaching the 100k score for the final achievement. (UPDATE: I've got this one too now, with the same ship) The game is pretty easy but with...
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...
Uggghh, it's hard to know what to say about Space Codex. Long story short; every review has to answer the question as to whether you would recommend the game or not. I wouldn't recommend this. I'd say go off and play something like Geometry Wars instead. HOWEVER, it's not like the game is bad. It's just completely inoffensive, There's a few bugs but nothing majorly broken, the gameplay is fine but nothing to write...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Space Codex scores 46/100 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/469890/space-codexReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.