Boxman's Struggle
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $1.02/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 295 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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
What's better than climbing mountain in a cardboard box? Getting deep frustration every time you fall from it.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy ($1.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats AtmaSphere ($0.75, scores 57).
More about Boxman's Struggle
None of the 232 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
At 4.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
57% start to 2% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Boxman's Struggle scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1228560/boxman-s-struggleReviews 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.