Binary Domain

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 86%Very Positive · 86%2012

$14.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A cheesy, charming Gears-style cover shooter with satisfying robot dismemberment and great characters, but the PC port is rough. Skip it if you need controller play or hate editing configs.

Great for

Fans of cheesy 2010s cover shooters who enjoy story, banter and robot dismemberment and don't mind tweaking settings

Main risk

The PC port has broken controller mapping, bad mouse acceleration and no in-game settings, which can make it unplayable.

What players love

Engaging sci-fi story with twists

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“it has that mass effect/metal gear solid hybrid vibe, that i loved, with a story that explores the same themes as detroit: become human.”
Steam review · 13.2 h played ↗

“great story with surprises! Really worth playing :)”
Steam review · 10.6 h played ↗

Funny, memorable characters and banter

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“The highlight for me is the character banter, especially between Dan and Big Bo.”
Steam review · 8.7 h played ↗

“The characters are fire. The main ones feel like real people, the way they talk, joke and argue with each other.”
Steam review · translated · 28.2 h played ↗

Cheap, underrated hidden gem

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“I picked it up just because it was cheap, but it surprised me a lot”
Steam review · 9.6 h played ↗

“Truly one of the most underappreciated games of all time.”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗

Satisfying robot dismemberment

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The destruction of the robots and being able to destroy every individual part of every robot feels amazing and never gets old.”
Steam review · 10.6 h played ↗

“you destroy enemy hand, they drop their weapon and charge, you destroy their feet they crawl, destroy their head and they shoot their friends”
Steam review · 11.5 h played ↗

“I like the limb-shooting mechanic.”
Steam review · translated · 10.3 h played ↗

Trust system and squad choices matter

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“how you treat your squad actually matters , every choice, every reaction, every mission decision feeds into how much your teammates trust you.”
Steam review · 14.3 h played ↗

“it has different cutscene and dialogue depending on what teammate are you choosing into your team”
Steam review · 21.3 h played ↗

Big, varied boss fights

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“Fast action, amazing boss battles with HUGE robot enemies.”
Steam review · 32.2 h played ↗

“The bosses are well made too; each has its own attacks and its own mechanics.”
Steam review · translated · 39.6 h played ↗

What players complain about

Bad keyboard/mouse controls and prompts

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“"Press M to reload" doesn't do anything. Can't pass the first mission because it requires you to charge your gun with the M key, which doesn't do anything.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

“theres disgusting mouse acceleration defaulted and you have to download third party patch to get this fixed”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗

“The developers came up with the idea of putting the control settings in a launcher before starting the game.”
Steam review · translated · 1.2 h played ↗

Broken controller support and mapping

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“i spent an hour using my LR trigger buttons as look up and look down and my select and start buttons as my aim and shoot buttons respectively”
Steam review · 1 h played ↗

“BE ADVISED: unplayable with controller, even though it says "Full controller support"”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“Controller support is broken. The game needs a patch to fix it. Unplayable until it's fixed.”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗

Voice commands barely work

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“I say charge, it doesn't register, I say 'yes' it hears 'no', i say 'no' it hears 'help'.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

“Pretty hard to play a game that needs voice commands but won't recognize any clearly said voice commands”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗

Bullet-sponge bosses and repetitive gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“Enemies can soak up thousands of bullets even at no mercy mode.”
Steam review · 15.7 h played ↗

“Bland gameplay of "shoot the robots in the room, go to the next room, shoot the robots in the room, go to the next room, shoot big robot boss".”
Steam review · 15.1 h played ↗

Crashes, bugs and setup problems

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“it crashes cutscenes after cutscenes even if its like 35 to 40 fps the game is always forcing itself to crash making it unplayable for me”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗

“fixed the "wrong monitor" bug, then the "menu won't load" bug and also the "new game won't load" one. and I still can't save.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

Useless, annoying AI teammates

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“your squadmates keep jumping straight into your line of sight, and friendly fire is not only very much a thing, but is HARSHLY penalized”
Steam review · 5.5 h played ↗

“the ai teammates are a bunch of lobotomized patients who try to revive you when enemies are shooting lead at your position”
Steam review · 12.3 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSMicrosoft Windows 7/Vista/XP

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz or AMD equivalent

Memory2GB RAM (XP)/3GB RAM (Windows 7 / Vista)

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GT220 (512MB) / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (512MB)

Storage8 GB free hard drive space

Recommended

OSMicrosoft Windows 7

ProcessorIntel Core i5 @ 2.66 GHz or AMD equivalent

Memory3GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 (1GB) / ATI Radeon HD 5750 (1GB)

Storage8 GB free hard drive space

OSMicrosoft Windows 7/Vista/XP

ProcessorIntel Core 2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz or AMD equivalent

Memory2GB RAM (XP)/3GB RAM (Windows 7 / Vista)

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GT220 (512MB) / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT (512MB)

Storage8 GB free hard drive space

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