Cyber Shadow
Fair · Roguelike · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.6h
- Value
- $2.32/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATI Radeon X1300 / Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT / Intel HD 3000 or better, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow, the sole survivor of his clan, on one last mission to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 26 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 41 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Messenger ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Axiom Verge ($19.99, scores 51).
None of the 404 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
79% start to 3% 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
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 14:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I LOVE THIS SO FAR!! Super nostalgic feeling, I grew up with classic games like these so this is definitely up my alley! Funny thing is I actually decided to give this game a try due to a modded level on Celeste that uses songs from this OST. This game is definitely difficult, but it's at least forgiving with the save points and allowing you extra benefits to give yourself for an advantage. The mechanics are also...
Cyber Shadow is one of the best 2D platformer that I've ever played. Pros: - The pixel art for NPC, enemies, background, cutscenes are really well detailed an quite colourful. - Soundtrack makes you feel like a badass. - The combat abilities that you unlock along the way are pretty fun as I end up using all of them consistently throughout the game. - I like the CRT filter. - You get to beat Apparitor twice. Cons: ...
Fun, but not very complex. If you like ninja gaiden, you'll like this, because it's just ninja gaiden but quite a lot easier. I got it on sale for 11 bucks but honestly i'd wait for a deeper sale.
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Cite this score
Cyber Shadow scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/861250/cyber-shadowReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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