Perilous Warp

Perilous Warp

Skip · Shooter · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
2h 5.7h to 100%
Value
$7.50/hr
Reviews
73% of 387 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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
Engagement20% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$7.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 368 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

Perilous Warp is a fast-paced indie retro-shooter inspired by the classic 3D-actions. Communication with a distant space colony has been lost, and you bravely step into the teleporter with the desire for glorious adventures. But do not expect to win in a heartbeat!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct3D-compatible, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 31 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ion Fury ($24.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Hellbound ($14.99, scores 11).

More about Perilous Warp

Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 368 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 2 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.9 times as long.

The drop-off

91% start to 20% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

small compact adventure inspired by retro shooters (Chasm); worth on discount. Took me 3h to complete on a leisure pace
lone_starRecommendedafter 2.6hAug 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Not sure when this game was made but the play is simple and the story is not bad.
hr10101Recommendedafter 4.5hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Perilous Warp scores 28/100 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/668320/perilous-warp
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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

DeveloperCrystice Softworks
PublisherCrystice Softworks
GenreShooter
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements32