Super Hydorah
Fair · Multiplayer · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.9h
- Value
- $6.89/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 330 positive
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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
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128 MB, 174 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Blazing Chrome ($16.99, scores 55).
More about Super Hydorah
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
32% start to 8% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's good! The best part for me was routing the weapons to make the harder levels more manageable. Every stage is distinctive and the moment to moment level design is overall really good. The only critiques I have is that there's too much downtime with the story & some slow sections (like the boss rush checkpoint for example) and that it's trivially easy to savescum to obtain what should be the harder achievements.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Been in a shmup mood lately and realized I never wrote a review for this gem. It's a solid shooter throughout, with a decent level of challenge--while still being fair enough for a novice to learn--and plenty of stuff to shoot, with a variety of weapons to choose from. And of course the music is excellent, as is tradition for the genre. Point of note, this was actually the first indie game I was ever introduced to...
I was worried if I'd gotten too old and my reaction speed was in the dirt already, but I found out from the reviews that the game apparently runs too slow or too fast (just like my case) for many people. Plus there is no documented fix (I tried setting my monitor to 60hz - didn't seem to work, at least at first). They really shouldn't be selling this game in the current state. This is why this review is negative...
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Cite this score
Super Hydorah scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/628800/super-hydorahReviews 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.