Ginga Force
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$10.33Fair
- Length
- 7.6h 11.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 234 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.33 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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
Fight over the Earth-like planet of Seventia and its scarce resources of Septonium. A vertical shoot ’em up at its core with an added focus towards immersive storytelling. Follow the story of Alex and Margaret, two exceptional pilots, for the first time on Steam.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce or RADEON, VRAM 2GB or better, 2.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 52 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 5 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 23 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. On the same math The Bug Butcher ($7.99, scores 70) and Savant - Ascent ($0.99, scores 72) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Ginga Force
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 226 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
54% start to 10% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is BRUTAL. I respect it. I'm a beginner shmup player, I've 1CC'd a good number of shmups at this point on the easier end of things - probably the hardest I've done is Mushihimesama on normal difficulty, so that's my level. I'm not a complete newbie, but I'm not great, either. I died on the first mission of this game, initially. After clearing the first mission, you can choose from four missions, and they...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
To be honest this is actually one of the best bullet hells you can get for its price. Its a great game and I've played bullet hell since space invaders. Why is it great? Because it does an amazing job of blending 3d and 2d style gameplay. It is a 2d shooter, but it runs in a full 3d engine with a lot of dynamic transitions. It makes for some really great gameplay and I think its even better than what Raiden series...
I wanted to like it but I just wish I were practicing playing another shmup every time I boot it up. The cover art is great, and the "arcade sound effects" and the voice acting make it feel exciting, but then the gameplay is just a mess. I can't ever tell what plane the enemies are when I start a new stage and waste ammo shooting at things that are on a different plane. To get around this I would have to memorize...
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Cite this score
Ginga Force scores 43/100 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/885910/ginga-forceReviews 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.