Null Vector
Worth it · Roguelike · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $0.91/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 268 positive
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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
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About the game
Trade. Gamble. Fight! Test your arcade chops in Null Vector, a twin-stick shooter rogue-lite. Discover and experiment with thousands of weapon combinations, take strategic advantage of machines to trade and gamble for new ship parts, and unleash your own bullet hell upon the Final Boss!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 670MX, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 14 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 159 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Star of Providence ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Tower of Guns ($14.99, scores 54).
What players say
Not bad. Not great. As a devotee of the twin-stick-rogue, this is a competant game which has the sort of professional polish you don't see on Steam very much. That said, it's a little flat. The color choices bother me, since it becomes very hard to see what's going on in a proper cluster. The short play time is great for an arcade game, but the repetition cuts down its staying power. What I do like is the upgrade...
1 more review
A bite sized twin-stick that keeps things simple, straightforward, and quick. Eight way movement and firing if you're on keyboard (game doesn't read mouse) akin to a true original arcade twin-stick, which happens to be my preferred way to play. Honestly, I could see this doing reasonably well in a cabinet. There's exactly one thing that isn't particularly clear in the game (Nanobots). One. Everything else you'll...
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Cite this score
Null Vector scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/608110/null-vectorReviews 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.