Grey Goo

Wait68%

Mixed · 4k player reviews · Medium confidence

It depends on what you're after.

Steam Deck Playable
  • Windows

Petroglyph · Strategy · Jan 23, 2015

Player review score
68%
Mixed
Price
$29.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
35
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
8
Full audio2 of 8
Subtitles8 of 8

Should I buy Grey Goo?

Buy it if you like
  • Story: 121 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 88 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 42 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Multiplayer: 45 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Difficulty: 28 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Combat: 15 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 4k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
33% of themes are praise300 helpful reviews67% are complaints
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
121 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
EDIT: Just finished the single player campaign (with all optional objectives) and its GREAT right up through the end.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
88 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Grey Goo is a strange title to start, gameplay is decent and overall performance on my end is fine (running at max settings and haven't had any issues or bugs).
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
42 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The visuals are impressive, you may max the game out even on a modest PC.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
36 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The dialog is great, and the voice acting delivering that dialog is great.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Story121 reviews
Gameplay88 reviews
Graphics42 reviews
Audio36 reviews
Divided opinion

No themes split opinion in this sample.

Players complain
Multiplayer
69% still recommend
Difficulty
46% still recommend
Combat
67% still recommend
Performance
67% still recommend
Interface
77% still recommend
Crashes
25% still recommend
Servers and matchmaking
67% still recommend
Optimization
67% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Multi-player
  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Includes level editor
  • Stats
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckPlayable
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachinePlayable

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Full price
$29.99

We haven't seen it on sale yet.

3 points recordedtoday · $29.99

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