BYTEPATH
Worth it · RPG · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 6.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.21/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 317 positive
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, at about $0.69 (65% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 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
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About the game
BYTEPATH is a replayable arcade shooter with a focus on build theorycrafting. Use a massive skill tree, many classes and ships to create your own builds and defeat an ever increasing amount of enemies.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1+ compatible card, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 25 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 72 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including You Must Build A Boat ($4.99, scores 56) and 10,000,000 ($4.99, scores 71).
More about BYTEPATH
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
0.9 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to 27% finishSteam 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
Its remarkable how in many ways this little game managed to pre-empt the Vampire Survivors craze in such a unique and compelling way. The price is perfect, the mood is perfect. Sell some steam cards and get it for yourself or a friend, you won't regret it.
2 more reviews
This game is fantastic, and worth significantly more than its list price ($2). The store page description of "Bit Blaster XL crossed with Path of Exile" is absolutely on point. The mechanics are satisfying, the terminal based UI is a fun conceit, the skill tree is huge, the soundtrack is excellent, and the buildcrafting is a lot of fun. The biggest problems this game has are its instability at high projectile counts...
BYTEPATH, developed and published by a327ex, is a minimalist arcade shooter that builds surprising depth out of extremely simple mechanics. At first glance, it looks almost barebones-a small ship, a scrolling field of enemies, and a constant stream of projectiles-but beneath that stripped-down surface lies a system-driven experience that thrives on experimentation and incremental progression. Rather than...
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Cite this score
BYTEPATH scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/760330/bytepathReviews 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.