EXAPUNKS
BANGER · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 25.3h
- Value
- $0.79/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1366 x 768, 655 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
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 $9.99. That was August 2019. It has been discounted 53 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TIS-100 ($6.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Opus Magnum ($19.99, scores 88).
$25.73 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $19.99.
Of the 327 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
29% start to <1% 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
There is a lot to like about this game: the story, the art style, the problems being solved, the small extras that provide a break from the main body of the game... Regarding the tasks being solved, the distinct thing in this title, compared to other Zachtronics games, are the network communication and the fact that you program 'agents' and manage their lifecycles. The other distinct thing, if you've played TIS-100...
The goal for each mission is very simple but you have a lot of constraints like buffer size, registers and if you are really down into making decent code, you will spent more time trying to make an efficient code. Really fun game, never thought that I would have fun with low level-ish programming
Love this game even though I'm not nearly as good at programming as some of the other folks in the reviews. It just makes you feel like a gritty hacker in a dystopian cyberpunk world. And the soundtrack is great.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
EXAPUNKS scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/716490/exapunksReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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