BallisticNG
BANGER · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 24.5h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.
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
September 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 37 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Arcade Moonlander ($0.99, scores 88) and Distance ($24.99, scores 69) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $23.88. It costs $14.99.
This site sampled 385 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 513 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
24.5 hours to finish it, 78 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
35% start to 1% 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
23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 22:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
CREDENTIALS, 1999 Just so nobody tells me I don't know what I'm talking about. 1999, freshly finished with my studies, no job, no plan and no particular shame about any of it. Wipeout 2097, six to eight hours in a sitting, Piranha on Phantom. No weapons, because the Piranha doesn't get any, so every race was me and 450 km/h and the sincere hope that nobody behind me had a Quake. Perfect laps on all eight tracks...
One of the best racers ever made. It is extremely fast, very pretty, has a wonderful soundtrack and a wide range of palystyles, ships, tracks, game modes (even an alternative physics model that is more challenging than the base one) and difficulty ranges to keep everyone entertained. It also has different options of multiplayer, good DLC, and hundreds of community-made models and tracks. The cherry on top is it is...
10/10 recommendation if you crave WipeOut. Glider feel, music, maps, amount of content are all peak!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BallisticNG scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/473770/ballisticngReviews 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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