Armed to the Gears
Skip · Shooter · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 14, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 215 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
About the game
Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Onboard GPU, 317 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 59 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 80 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Taur ($16.74, scores 45) beats it on value, while it beats Outpost: Infinity Siege ($24.99, scores 11).
The drop-off
57% 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
Recommend to get it on sale. For the price, the quality of this game is very good. Not a ton of missions, but the graphics, sound and game play are very well done. The controls are easy to pick up, and the difficulty comes from the strategy of deciding where to commit resources for defences and where to attack. You can't defend all generators equally. The game runs well and the mech movement is very smooth. I'm very...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Capture reactors, build defenses and explore surroundings eliminating enemy robots. Music get sometimes weird. You can choose which towers you want to build and where with cursor. I wouldn't recommend playing with controller as the building interface is not very accessible. Decent visuals but depends on where you looking at because terrain sometimes might look waverly and uneven like made out of clay. I feel like...
tl;dr It is just bad. I am at a loss for words. Like others said this game is one half lies and the other half nothing. Yes, you control a "mech", but no, you can not really customise anything in a meaningful way. Also the descriptions, like "machine guns", are just a lie, there is ONE machine gun - same with the rest. ONE grenade launcher ("Artillery"), ONE tesla gun, etc. So yeah, you walk around click one mouse...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Armed to the Gears scores 14/100 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/804870/armed-to-the-gearsReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.