Stacking
Fair · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB GeForce 8800, Radeon 3850, or Intel HD 2000 Graphics, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Embark on an adventure to rescue Charlie’s family from the nefarious industrialist known only as the 'Baron.'
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 68 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Costume Quest ($9.99, scores 82) and Haven Park ($8.99, scores 83) both outscore it.
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 232 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
55% start to 7% 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
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Stacking scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115110/stackingThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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