异常 | Exception
BANGER · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.99.
- Length
- 10.9h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 611 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1019 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
Exception is a game about AI programming. During the game, the player assists the units to defeat their enemies in the virtual world. However, the player needs to control the units by programming instead of controlling them directly.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel(R) HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
5 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 22 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 146 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Game Dev Story ($8.99, scores 73) and Rusted Warfare - RTS ($4.99, scores 81).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $9.43.
More about 异常 | Exception
Of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 218 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
84% start to 3% 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
What players say
This is a programming puzzle game. If you like logic puzzles and are familiar with computer programming concepts (I'm a C++/Fortran dude). Or maybe you have played robot board games, this might be up your alley. Think of it as brain food using a whole different part of your brain than say killing animals for survival games or fighting off hordes of zombies. I'm taking it a level a day - and learning a whole new...
2 more reviews
Great game. If you like logic puzzles, you'll like Exception. I would only caveat this by saying that it ramps-up very slowly... too slowly, in my opinion. There are so few available commands during the first couple hours of gameplay that you could easily solve the puzzles through blind trial-and-error. It gets much more enjoyable once you start solving the harder puzzles later in the game.
Humorous, creative, but hard, so hard for me. I got stuck at level 10, anybody has a solution?
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Cite this score
异常 | Exception scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/621000/exceptionReviews 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.