Pixel Gladiator
Skip · Action · 2017
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$4.99Skip
On its price record
$4.15Fair
- Length
- 1.1h 3.6h to 100%
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 455 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.15 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (80% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 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
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
Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 64 MB VRAM, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 79 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 83 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, MO:Astray ($14.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Valfaris ($24.99, scores 43).
More about Pixel Gladiator
Of the 220 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
14% start to 5% 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
⚔️ PIXEL GLADIATOR - Fast-Paced Arcade Combat in Pure Pixel Style ⚔️ Developer: Flying Islands Team Review Type: ⭐ Positive | 🎮 Detailed | 💡 Helpful 🎯 Introduction Pixel Gladiator delivers a fast, intense, and highly focused action experience, combining sharp combat mechanics with a strong retro arcade identity. Developed by the Flying Islands Team, the game embraces simplicity while offering depth through...
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Cite this score
Pixel Gladiator scores 48/100 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/542400/pixel-gladiatorReviews 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.