RAD

RAD

Skip · Roguelike · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 34, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
8.5h
Value
$2.35/hr
Reviews
74% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
75% ($4.99)
Last discount ended
14 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
8.5h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.35
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
74%
970 reviews, as of Sep 28
Metacritic
71
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 780, 3 GB / AMD RX 470, 4 GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.35/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length8.5 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 322 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was April 2021. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 55 in the 7 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nuclear Throne ($11.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats FatalZone ($6.99, scores 17).

Of the 322 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 150 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

50% start to 1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

Players

3 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 20:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
RAD scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/722560/rad
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+3
Critics
71
Players
74
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 970 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDouble Fine Productions
PublisherBANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc.
GenreRoguelike
Released2019
Achievements37