Gumboy Tournament

Gumboy Tournament

Skip · Multiplayer · 2008

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 24, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
7.5h
Value
$0.40/hr
Reviews
70% of 468 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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 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

Holding it back
Reviews70% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.40/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 16 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Test your reflexes, judgment and tactics while facing up to eight other players in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed and popular arcade game Gumboy: Crazy Adventures, winner of numerous accolades including Gametunnel's GAME OF THE YEAR 2006.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Graphic Adapter with 128 MB VRAM compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 123 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 122 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.

It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 62 percent. Fling to the Finish ($2.99, scores 61) outscores it, and so does Polyball ($3.99, scores 26). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Gumboy Tournament

Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 261 reviews written there were positive, against 70 percent overall, and those are 86 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

This game reminds me a lot of games I used to play on other consoles.. It is a 90's game when they created a lot of these games ... still nice to play with your friends. Although no servers cause no one still plays it but you can do a LAN server or singleplayer. Nice game 6.5/10 -Diesel
HEATHENSRecommendedafter 1.7h31 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Gumboy Tournament is a lively and unconventional physics-based arcade game that builds upon the ideas of its predecessor and reshapes them into a more competitive, content-rich experience. Developed and published by CINEMAX GAMES, it centers on controlling a small, spherical character whose movement is governed by momentum, gravity, and environmental interaction rather than tight, traditional platforming inputs. The...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hJan 2026Read on Steam
Maybe it was worth it during the dark ages. But nowadays there's no reason to play this. Perhaps with some friends it could be alright. Honestly, though... I just don't like this game. It's mostly just a boring outdated party game. There are better party games being sold here. Paying for this game truly seems like a waste. If you can get it for free, tho... It's ok I guess. Either way: I just can't give a positive...
GaybitBiscuitNot recommendedafter 3.0h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

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Gumboy Tournament scores 24/100 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/11230/gumboy-tournament
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Reviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCINEMAX GAMES
PublisherCINEMAX GAMES
GenreMultiplayer
Released2008
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate