POLYBIUS
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $2.80/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 256 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1748 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
POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine's VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: GTX 960 or AMD equivalent, 1.6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 3 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 250 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Retrowave ($2.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Thumper ($19.99, scores 65).
More about POLYBIUS
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
75% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Psychedelic AF. Also fun. You go fast. You shoot. You get confused. It's a real video game. Llamasoft forever.
2 more reviews
What an unbelievable hidden gem. I hope you have a gaming monitor, because a regular 60Hz display literally cannot keep up.
Note: I'd suggest not playing this game if you have epilepsy (along with most games by this developer). --- This might be my favorite Llamasoft release. The game is a mix of Rez's psychedelic aesthetic and F-Zero's blazing-fast racing. What it amounts to is high-octane action. When you're driving through rings and dodging obstacles at top speed, it's genuinely thrilling; when you smack into something and slow down...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
POLYBIUS scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/906120/polybiusReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.