Graze Counter

Graze Counter

Skip · Shooter · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a worth-it price before.

Today

$9.99Skip

On its price record

$3.05Worth it

Length
0.6h 1.5h to 100%
Value
$16.65/hr
Reviews
95% of 318 positive
It needs 89% off ($1.13) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $3.05.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.05 or less.

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

Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$16.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 129 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

Graze the enemy’s bullets, Charge them head-on, and Wreak Havoc!!An exhilarating and dangerous shoot-em-up! This is a game for those with courage and survival instinct!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Onboard, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 93 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $1.13. No recorded sale has reached it yet.

On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Distant Space ($0.49, scores 62) outscores it, and so does Cyberhunt ($4.99, scores 57). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Graze Counter

Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.

0.6 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.

What players say

This game learns you some bad bad habits as you fly close into shots to get that critical graze counter to 100%. Without it you are too often just burnt toast against masses of enemies or big enemies / bosses in particular. And you want that limit break gauge to fill up too when those sweet sweet stars are released. So any difference to other games out there? Plenty. Graze counter is done well here. Not unique but...
Nax_oRecommendedafter 2.4hJan 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Really fun SHMUP, but outclassed by Graze Counter GM, now. Play that one, though!
Wool SharkRecommendedafter 9.4hNov 2025Read on Steam
Chill bullet hell with a unique gimmick that makes it super approachable for folks who aren't accustomed to bullet hells. Really though, the game really urges you to keep using it since it's vital for survival, it's so broken as well since it eats at bullets and charges your break meter. All the shot type work fine, good music and balanced difficulty and a good price as well, highly recommend it if you're looking...
Lum69Recommendedafter 18hMar 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Graze Counter scores 48/100 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/629440/graze-counter
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Reviews 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 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

DeveloperBikkuri Software
PublisherHenteko Doujin
GenreShooter
Released2017
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate