Trombone Champ
Fair · Short indie · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$5.55BANGER
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 or higher, 727 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Honk, blow, & toot your way through over 60 songs, collect all 50 unique Tromboner Cards, and uncover the mysteries of the Trombiverse. Do you have what it takes to become the true Trombone Champ?
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in March 2026. It has been discounted 18 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.55. The record reaches that level 10 times.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, Wandersong ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Headbangers: Rhythm Royale ($3.99, scores 24).
Critics scored it 82. Players sit 16 points higher at 98 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 505 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 727 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 121 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 2,649 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 5% 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
Players
37 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 16:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The base game is fun and silly. As a trombone player, I can confirm that this is exactly what playing the trombone is like. And all of the factoids are 100% true. What gives this game extra life is the modding community and all the custom songs that are still being added. If you like video game music and music playing, don't sleep on this.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Trombone Champ scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1059990/trombone-champReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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