Streets of Rage 4
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $7.81/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 92% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 | AMD Radeon HD 6670, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.24, set in March 2026. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 44 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TowerFall Ascension ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Double Dragon: Neon ($9.99, scores 44).
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 8 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 92 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 431 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,926 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 30, 9.3 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
88% start to 3% 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
Players
72 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
My therapist : "The 90s arcade ca not hurt you, it is in the past." Streets of Rage 4 : Punches me straight back to 1995. Bought this on sale for 6,24€ expecting a cheap nostalgia trip. Ended up playing on a keyboard, smashing buttons like a frantic 10 years old, and having the time of my life. - Crisp graphics - Incredible soundtrack - Instant wrist pain from button mashing - Pure, unadulterated dopamine Already...
A true modern arcade classic that continues to give back the more of you put in. It would be easy to play for an hour or two and then move on, but there is a surprising amount of depth and mastery to explore in just 12 stages of uncompromising action.
Kinda disappointed with how short the game is, not much content. Yeah maybe for 5 bucks it is alright
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Streets of Rage 4 scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/985890/streets-of-rage-4The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Sep 24.
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