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Razerwire:Nanowars

Razerwire:Nanowars

A modern revisitation of the 80s arcades. Use your Razerwire to cut through waves of nanobugs with a rogue-like inspired progression.

Released Feb 28, 2018 Developer Hammer & Ravens Platforms Windows Arena ShooterBullet HellShoot 'Em UpRogue-liteShooter
View on Steam ↗ $1.99 (US · as of 2026-05-19)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

86.4%positive110 reviews
Recommended · 34 found this helpful

“Razerwire: Nanowars is a retro (80's) action-arcade game that progression addicts are certain to love. The game reminds me of the games that I would play for countless hours as a child. It is the result of a lunchtime, 30-minute a day, project developed by a dev who works on…”

— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played
Recommended · 24 found this helpful

“Introduction Razerwire: Nanowars is the Steam debut of Screwdriver&Pigeons and that should come as no surprise to me, since both the title and its developer have been quite creative with their naming conventions and the contents of the arcade casual I shall be reviewing today.…”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 18 found this helpful

“My 4 years old son say: "oh oh, this game is beatiful!" "use the missile daddy! use the missile!" "be careful or the red ball (the mine) will hurt you!" My year old baby starts dancing when the music during the waves play. Isn't this enough to buy the game? ;) Razerwire Nanowars…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

25achievements
28.0%median completion
23.8%rarest: Nothing else antimatters
90.5% of players 62.3% of players 60.7% of players 48.0% of players 44.8% of players 33.9% of players 30.5% of players 30.2% of players 29.6% of players 29.4% of players 29.1% of players 28.2% of players 28.0% of players 27.4% of players 26.7% of players 26.5% of players 26.1% of players 25.4% of players 25.4% of players 24.7% of players 24.5% of players 24.4% of players 24.3% of players 24.1% of players 23.8% of players 90.5% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.5%Bugs splatter — Achieve a 10 kills combo
62.3%Survivor — Survive 50 waves
60.7%Bugs terror — Achieve a 25 kills combo
Rarest badges of honor
23.8%Nothing else antimatters — Kill 10 enemies with a single antimatter bullet
24.1%Possibly drunk — 100 second of WD scrambled
24.3%Tough Enough — Survive 500 waves

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 09, 2024
A new game announced! Ale Abbey, a monastery brewery tycoon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789460/Ale_Abbey/ Ale Abbey is a monastery brewery tycoon set in the late Middle Ages. Assign your carefully selected crew of brewers to research new styles and bet

Sep 17, 2021
1.31

* If you hit Spacebar in the Settings menu, it will deactivate the strobo and glitch effects when the Pod is damaged or scrambled

Sep 14, 2021
v1.3 Free Full Visual Reskin

Some time ago I told you wasn't done with Razewire, and here's the proof the I ain't be lying. With the help of Francesco ( @NerdsWe on Twitter ) and his magic pixels, we did a full visual reskin, in-

Sep 02, 2021
A surprise is coming with v 1.3

We've got a surprise for you, it's major and we won't spoil it beside what you can see in the header picture of this blog entry. What is happening to Razerwire? ːlunar2019grinningpigː Stay tuned and y

Mar 25, 2021
Our game, Empires in Ruins, leaves early access with a 20% discount.

Even though I released Razerwire:Nanowars in 2018, and we produced Headbängers in Holiday Hell in December 2020, I have been working on Empires in Ruins, with ups and downs due to freelancing, since 2

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Casual, Indie
Player tagsArena Shooter · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Rogue-lite · Shooter · Arcade · Character Customization · 2D · Top-Down · Relaxing · Bullet Time · Time Manipulation (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
ControllerFull support
Achievements25
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 32bit Processor: i3 Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphic Card Storage: 100 MB available space