Pumpkin Jack
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.6h
- Value
- $6.52/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, Radeon R9 270, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Pumpkin Jack is a Spooky Scary 3D platformer in which you embody Jack, the Mythical Pumpkin Lord! Dive into an Epic Adventure through otherworldly landscapes and help the Evil annihilate the Good!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.69. That was October 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy ($39.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Yooka-Laylee ($19.99, scores 40).
71 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 927 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
84% start to 22% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
An overall good game, classic style of platforming and slashing at enemies, fun boss battles, good character, though it can get a bit repetitive, however, I do quite like the humor of it all. 7.5/10
This is a great game to play if you're interested in a fast-paced platformer with multiple racing segments and mean spirited humor. Speaking of spirits? Also a great game to play during Halloween if you're not interested in horror games as it is DRIPPING with Halloween spirit.
I am a Halloween lover. I got this game purely because of the Halloween aesthetic. I am sad to leave this review but i absolutely HATED this game. Sorry. It started nice but then it got so bad. This game does not want you to have a good time playing it. it simply wants to make you angry. First of all, it has some sort of BUG on the starting menu when your clicks don't work anymore/ YUou can start the game sometimes...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Pumpkin Jack scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1186640/pumpkin-jackThe 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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