ATOMINE

ATOMINE

Skip · Roguelike · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 36, under the fair line, at $0.99.

Length
0.6h 11.2h to 100%
Value
$1.65/hr
Reviews
76% of 360 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

It is 90% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Holding it back
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 75% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.65/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead That is today's sale price. Normally $16.65/hr
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 137 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

Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 or AMD Radeon equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 79 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 90 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

It is less well reviewed than 67 percent of its genre. On the same math Nuclear Throne ($11.99, scores 88) and Star of Providence ($14.99, scores 84) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about ATOMINE

Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 0.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 11, 19 times as much.

The drop-off

30% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

ATOMINE is a fast-paced twin-stick shooter that blends the sleek precision of arcade-style combat with the unpredictability of roguelike progression. Developed and published by Broken Arms Games, it stands out not through an elaborate story but through its conceptual design - an abstract, digital battleground where players embody a self-replicating computer virus infiltrating layers of a virtual defense network. The...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hOct 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Explore random generated levels and unlock new upgrades. Obliterate enemies to dust. Controls are good and game is playable.
👾 🅼 🅰❎👾Recommendedafter 6.9hFeb 2025Read on Steam
A twin-stick shooter meets roguelite. Despite some shortcomings, its original setting and minimalist design showcase captivating cybernetic graphics in a sleek manner. While it might not be extraordinary, it is still quite good. 트윈스틱 슈터가 로그라이트를 만났을 때
HAYULRecommendedafter 5.5hJul 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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ATOMINE scores 36/100 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/603100/atomine
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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

DeveloperBroken Arms Games
PublisherBroken Arms Games
GenreRoguelike
Released2017
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements38