Tesla vs Lovecraft
Fair · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM 3.0+, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.74. That was October 2023. It has been discounted 60 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 29 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 78 percent of its genre. On the same math X-Morph: Defense ($19.99, scores 68) and Neon Chrome ($14.99, scores 70) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 73. Players sit 17 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
1 of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3 hours; clearing it takes 14, which is 4.6 times the campaign.
At 3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
85% start to 16% 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
Closest thing to Crimsonland 2. Premise is the same: you need to do all missions to unlock all perks and weapons for survival. But in "Tesla vs Lovecraft" you need to do same set of levels 3 times (4 and endless with DLC) which is kind of annoying. I'm 8 hours in and did 2.5 "times". Survival mode is the best thing in the game and to get all weapons for it you need to grind through "campaign". Survival is sort of...
Really enjoyable twin sticker shooter with great weapons and perks. However, I do wish it didn't have me play the whole game two more times to get to the end.
A relatively simple but very fun twin-stick shooter Recommended, especially to anyone who is looking to get into the twin-stick shooter genre
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Tesla vs Lovecraft scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/636100/tesla-vs-lovecraftReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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