99Vidas
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$12.99Skip
On its price record
$7.12Fair
- Length
- 3.5h 24.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.71/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 651 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.12 or less.
Buy now or wait
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
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
"99Vidas" is a "beat 'em up" set in a contemporary world that pays tribute to both the new and the classic in gaming industry. Brought to you in all pixelated, 16 bit-esque glory, chockfull of references to not only gaming, but all 80's and 90's pop culture.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 (512MB) / ATI Radeon HD 2900 (512MB), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 65 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mother Russia Bleeds ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game – Complete Edition ($14.99, scores 30).
More about 99Vidas
The press gave it 69; the people who bought it give it 79 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 210 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 112 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.5 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 7.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
74% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
A good beat-em-up with a very simple visual style, I couldn't finish it because I got bored of it quickly.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
99 Vidas is one of my favourite modern examples of Beat 'em up genre. I absolutely love the visuals and the variety in playable characters. The upgrade system gives a bit more challenge to the game, as you make the best decision on how you spend your points in the shop. One of the best parts of the game is the soundtrack. It captures the essence of Yuzo Koshiro's Streets of Rage music and complements the on screen...
Shows promise at first but then spirals into disaster the more you play it. All 4 characters feel too similar thus making them lack a unique style from one another. You unlock characters by beating the game but the first 4 you unlock are just clones of the starting 4, so you really get nothing. I haven't unlocked the other 3 because I just don't have the patience and I don't have fun when playing. When first...
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Cite this score
99Vidas scores 43/100 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/557040/99vidasReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.