Struggling
Fair · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.3h 11.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.81/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 705 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Struggling is a physics-based co-op platformer with a twisted spin on teamwork. Control the arms of a squishy abomination and lead it through a deranged world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GT 340 AMD Radeon HD 7640 Intel HD 4400, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 57 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Untitled Goose Game ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats PHOGS! ($4.99, scores 55).
More about Struggling
65 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
3 of the 327 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
53% start to <1% 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
What players say
This game is alright, as a co-op game it's a fun test of endurance and teamwork, I'd say that it's not very difficult as a rage game, the controls are hard to use but after a few hours you figure out the limitations of what you can do. In terms of presentation I think this game does a pretty solid job, the artstyle is fun and cartoony, the music is pretty good, there really is no story in here, more just a series of...
2 more reviews
I got this because I love the party game Heave Ho. This game takes the core mechanic of Heave Ho, turns it into a linear platformer, and gives it a story. It even adds a couple of extra powers. Some of these levels are extremely creative. Overall, it's done very well, but wow, this game is frustratingly challenging. Some parts of this game are mentally exhausting from testing your patience. I do like it, but it's...
Its the name of the game. A limp appendage paired with a convulsive one guiding a blind con-jointed heads named Troy and Hector that both can scream and yell for various reasons but seems to be their primary source of communication. Additionally, both have individual styles of apparel. During this journey they fight in the modern Left vs Right showdown in order to inch & crawl towards some middle ground. A...
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Cite this score
Struggling 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/1035560/strugglingReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.