Knuckle Sandwich
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.8h
- Value
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 689 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.17 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $8.99 (55% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Knuckle Sandwich is a turn-based RPG by Andy Brophy. Get a job, beat up some monsters, and solve a mystery that's plaguing Bright City.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128MB, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 13 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Meg's Monster ($14.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Everhood 2 ($19.99, scores 35).
More about Knuckle Sandwich
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 85 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 372 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
90% start to 23% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
"Is it possible for something to be simultaneously mid and utter peak at the same time?" Andrew Brophy & his team set out to give one of Socrates' most riddling and long unanswered questions a definitive answer: Yes. Yes it is possible, and they did it. Busdriver's unending comical problems and his relateable ways of solving them. The soundtrack that reaches outta your screen and slaps your big ol ears around every...
2 more reviews
It's very funny, has a lot of personality, nice gameplay and was overall a fun time. As others have mentioned, the story meanders a bit, but I think if you go in knowing that, it's a fantastic time. This is really clearly a game made by someone who put everything they loved about games into theirs. *You look at the bottom of the review. There is no Big Biscuit.*
Funny, quirky, innovative with great music and memorable characters. I watched the development of this game for years and I'd say it was worth the wait.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Knuckle Sandwich scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1012570/knuckle-sandwichReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.