Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 4.9h 7.4h to 100%
- Value
- $6.12/hr
- Reviews
- 58% of 400 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3 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
Hold onto your bananas, because Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD is rolling your way! Experience the magic of one of the most beloved titles in the series, now remastered in HD!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX550Ti or Radeon HD 5770, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
47 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy ($39.99, scores 65) and Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy ($39.99, scores 67) both outscore it.
More about Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD
8 of the 260 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to June 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 165 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 151 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
78% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 08:13 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The Dark Souls of Sega, fun game alot of different routes, bosses r kinda gimmicky but it's fun on sale.
2 more reviews
Not bad but vastly inferior next to Banana Mania. The boss fights are the main drag, with nearly of them being awful. That combined with a lack of levels (only 100 and only 82 of those being proper stages) and its brief. I will give credit to the stage design and the jump mechanic, which do work well, and the multiplayer modes are quite fun.
Playing this after Mania felt like a direct downgrade. The boss battles, despite being creative, aren't anything special & not being able to control the camera is egregious. However, I bought this for more SMB content & I got what I wanted out of Blitz.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1061730/super-monkey-ball-banana-blitz-hdReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.