Arcade Moonlander

Arcade Moonlander

BANGER · Action · 2017

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $0.99.

Length
0.9h
Value
$1.10/hr
Reviews
93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.10
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$0.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
1,215 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel integrated or better, 256 MB of storage. Windows only.

Explore space and race against the clock in this retro styled adventure game.
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

Raising the score
Value$1.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement20% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
For context
Length0.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 73 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

The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in July 2020. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 27 in the 9 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Superflight ($2.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Distant Space 2 ($0.99, scores 59).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

Finishing takes 0.9 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 2.2 times the campaign.

The drop-off

62% start to 20% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Arcade Moonlander scores 88/100 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/727020/arcade-moonlander
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDaniel Paul Griffin
PublisherBack Of Nowhere Studios
GenreAction
Released2017
Achievements42