FIGHTING EX LAYER
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $0.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.6h
- Value
- $1.65/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Last discount ended
- 361 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB, GTX 750Ti 2GB, or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was November 2025. 32 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 52 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Killer Instinct (free, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Mortal Kombat 11 ($49.99, scores 40).
11 of the 406 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,802 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 516 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 337 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.6 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 13 times as long.
The drop-off
79% 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
WORTH THE PRICE DROP, DESPITE DROUGHT OF CONTENT. This cost like a single game in actual arcade, and with the admission of 3 games you can afford Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series. The Good (from best to least): +For something sized around 3gb the game looks pretty, especially the environments, what kind of compression trickery ARIKA used? +has training mode +programmable multiple button...
It's been an average fighting game for a long time, a small number of fighters, an uncomplicated plot, a small number of blows. The game is purely for familiarization, there are much more interesting fighting games.
I'm not sure why this game has decent reviews. As far as fighting games go, this one is actual garbage. The whole thing feels clunky/shoddy and phoned-in; and of course it's jam-packed with DLC. I really recommend you DO NOT buy this game; there are countless good fighting games out there for you to try, and this is definitely not one of them
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FIGHTING EX LAYER scores 64/100 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/871200/fighting-ex-layerReviews 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 2.
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