Beat Hazard
BANGER · Shooter · 2010
The verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.17/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 7,453
- Critics
- 70 players 25 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Shooter
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.6h
- To 100%
- 25.5h 5.5x the story
- Finish
- 6% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 63
Price and sales
- Sales
- 106 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 April 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
106 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Beat Hazard 2 ($18.99, scores 62) and Symphony ($4.99, scores 66).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $29.80. It costs $9.99.
More about Beat Hazard
Critics scored it 70. Players sit 25 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 346 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 833 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.6 hours. Doing everything runs 26, 5.5 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Overview: ' Beat Hazard ' is a high adrenaline twin-stick shooter that is fueled by your own music. It's hard to argue against a game being fun while you're decimating a huge pool of spaceships, asteroids and dodging a plethora of projectiles while rocking out to your best, most favorite tracks. ' Beat Hazard ' is super fun and is jam packed full of fun gunplay, beautiful graphics and well, unsurprisingly, the best...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256MB of video memory. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Beat Hazard scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/49600/beat-hazardReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.