HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
Fair · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.9h
- Value
- $3.62/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 4,392 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.12 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, 13 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
60 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 15 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 34 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 5 ($19.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Resident Evil 6 ($19.99, scores 49).
More about HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
This site sampled 631 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 34 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 287 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 837 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
52% 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
What players say
Very enjoyable first or third person shooter that lets you play as an action figure in human-size spaces. I really like the detail in the different levels and feeling some nostalgia for my childhood. There is a story of sorts but I often skipped the cutscenes. The gameplay is basically defend a few bases against waves of enemies.
2 more reviews
I was on the fence recommending this but ultimately decided to, because I have enjoyed my time with it. But I would suggest getting it on discount, since you're only going to be able to realistically play singleplayer or local co-op. Pros: - The designs of the characters and their skins and heads and package are all really impressive and immediately had me remembering various action figures from my own childhood...
This game strikes an incredible balance. It is not so easy that dad is bored, but not so hard that kids are frustrated. Very fun couch game.
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Cite this score
HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/523660/hypercharge-unboxedReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.