MOTHERGUNSHIP
Skip · Roguelike · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $6.24.
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti 2GB / AMD Radeon R7 265, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
MOTHERGUNSHIP is a bullet-hell FPS where you craft your own guns, fight gigantic bosses, and defeat a robotic alien armada that conquered Earth. Face off against overwhelming odds in brutal, non-stop combats where thinking on your feet is the only way to survive.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
May 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 62 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $6.24 at 75 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tower of Guns ($3.74, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition ($9.99, scores 21).
Of the 413 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
82% 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
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MOTHERGUNSHIP scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/574090/mothergunshipThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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