Jump King
Worth it · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 66% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$12.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4166% offWorth it
- Cost per hourA
- $1.21/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 13,485
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.41 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.7h
- To 100%
- 86.8h 8.1x the story
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 61 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.98 October 2026
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 87 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 19% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
70% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 61 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 2 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71).
More about Jump King
21 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 642 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 2,158 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
10.7 hours to finish it, 87 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 2 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
What I like about this compared to other rage games is that controls are nowhere near as frustratingly bad. Instead of purposely bad controls like Getting Over It, screwing up is more your fault since it depends more on timing. It's still tricky and can be discouraging, but when I completed the main campaign for the first time, I felt like I had accomplished something amazing. I have yet to complete the two more...
1 more review
When I first started playing, I thought this game was kinda boring cause it doesn't really have any randomness or physics to it like Getting Over It or Pogostuck. The only thing you do is press space. You either make the jump or you don't. But after playing for about 3 hours I finally got the hang of it and my brain just gets this connection to the space button like I've been playing this game for my whole life. You...
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About the game
Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1.7 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Jump King scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1061090/jump-kingReviews 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 Oct 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.