A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.5h 10.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 70% of 913 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 2113 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
You are the ultimate weapon with an ultimate sidekick – Collect secret items and get power ups to become the perfect weapon.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series, ATI Radeon HD 2400 series, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 27 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 16 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 302 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 74 percent. On the same math Orbital Gear (free, scores 59) and SteamWorld Dig ($9.99, scores 78) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 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, 65 percent of the 185 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
2.5 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
49% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda scores 27/100 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/92300/a-r-e-s-extinction-agendaReviews 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.