GUILTY GEAR

GUILTY GEAR

Fair · Action · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2019. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
1.2h 14.8h to 100%
Value
$1.66/hr
Reviews
79% of 759 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Skip$9.99

Today

−80%Fair
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Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Holding it back
Value$1.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $8.33/hr
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 421 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

About the game

The origin of the series, the abnormality of the fighting game genre, now returns... HEAVEN or HELL?LET'S Rock!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was November 2020. It has been discounted 51 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 68 percent, about 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics ($15.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection ($39.99, scores 49).

More about GUILTY GEAR

Of the 421 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 223 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1.2 hours; clearing it takes 15, which is 12 times the campaign.

The drop-off

23% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

Players online
5 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 17:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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GUILTY GEAR scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/850980/guilty-gear
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperArc System Works
PublisherArc System Works
GenreAction
Released2019
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13