Drones, The Human Condition

Drones, The Human Condition

Skip · Shooter · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 2, under the fair line, at $5.99.

Length
0.8h 1.8h to 100%
Value
$7.49/hr
Reviews
38% of 363 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1113 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

Raising the score
Engagement23% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$7.49/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews38% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 42% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 8 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

An addictive fast paced twin stick arena shooter with banging electronic sound track, nostalgic nods and a barrage of flashing lights and bullets. Your task is simple, kill drones, free humans, don't die!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB VRAM, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 22 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 18 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 159 weeks ago.

It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. On the same math UBERMOSH Vol.5 ($0.99, scores 80) and Kill The Crows ($4.99, scores 91) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Drones, The Human Condition

Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

Finishing takes 0.8 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 2.3 times the campaign.

The drop-off

45% start to 23% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Drones, The Human Condition scores 2/100 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/556130/drones-the-human-condition
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBlunt Games
Publisherninjainatux
GenreShooter
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements9