Nowhere Patrol
Worth it · Action · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.90.
- Length
- 1.8h 13.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.77/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 239 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.90 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Nowhere Patrol is a boss rush game with bullet hell and platforming elements. Inspired by classic action arcade games with it's steep difficulty curve and non-stop action.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, OpenGL 3.1, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 14 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $3.90, a level the record has reached 27 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Savant - Ascent ($0.99, scores 72) and The Void Rains Upon Her Heart ($12.99, scores 80).
More about Nowhere Patrol
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
1.8 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
16% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
A short boss rush platforming game that is more forgiving than it initially looks. (+) Simple and tight gameplay (+) Interesting mechanic: if you take down the boss without taking damage, a new phase of the boss opens up. (+) The bosses are varied with good patterns to dodge and fight through. (+) Some of the bosses can be quite challenging, but it never felt unfair. (+) A lot of unlockables! (0) OST is not that...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Nowhere Patrol, developed and published by Slugsoft, is a focused action-platformer that takes inspiration from classic arcade design and combines it with the intensity of modern bullet-hell gameplay. Rather than building a lengthy adventure filled with exploration and story-heavy sequences, the game centers almost entirely on a series of challenging boss encounters. This approach gives the experience a clear...
This review is for those that plays on a steam deck. The game is fun to play especially when you start to understand the bosses pattern. The issue I have with the game is not being able to play the game at first (need a community layout to play the game) but the main issue being random lagging that can cost you a run like a no hit run including getting kicked towards my library at a time and a no hit run I had...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Nowhere Patrol scores 81/100 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/961660/nowhere-patrolReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.