Just Shapes & Beats
BANGER · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99. Typically $11.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $6.06/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 26,342
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.3h
- To 100%
- 34h 10.3x the story
- Achievements
- 26
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 December 2024
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 90 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
76% start to 8% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
62 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 13 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, Beat Hazard ($9.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats BARRIER X ($2.99, scores 65).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $27.46.
More about Just Shapes & Beats
21 of the 782 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,032 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 1,603 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
3.3 hours to finish it, 34 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 10 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 13 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
its really fun, might be difficult for beginners but once you learn how to play, its a great game. you can even play with friends!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I officially declare that this game just refuses to let me go every evening. Why I love it? Honestly, I don't know. I just enjoying playing to the rhythm of soundtracks. Also this game makes me suffer because it's difficulty. I don't play like a pro yet, but i'm trying. I recommend this game for those, who love a music, rhythm and pure madness.
so much better in concept than it is in execution. this game feels boring to play with the intended difficulty AND it boring to play casually. please do not buy this game. show the developers that this is not what rhythm gaming is.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
"Just Shapes & Beats" is a chaotic co-op musical bullet-hell based on three simple things: avoid Shapes, move to the kick-ass Beats, and die, repeatedly.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, DirectX 11-compatible graphics card with at least 512MB of video memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Just Shapes & Beats scores 91/100 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/531510/just-shapes-beatsReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.