Garlic
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.9h 10.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.90/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 394 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.73 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 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
You are Garlic, an onion-headed boy and you want to climb the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess to seduce her...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 250 MB or higher, 522 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 10 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 22 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio ($0.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Super Bernie World (free, scores 52).
More about Garlic
Of the 322 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
57% start to 9% 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
What players say
A challenging platformer that's a little weird, but I like the humor and the soundtrack's pretty decent. I wasn't a fan of the level design though, and the zones felt a bit drawn out. Thankfully, even with the crazy amount of deaths I had, there were a good amount of checkpoints so it wasn't too frustrating. I also really enjoyed the arcade mini games and thought they were fun. I mean being able to play a version of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Every time you launch this game you're hit with a tutorial that shows you some enhanced dash state you get after you dash into a wall, floor, or ceiling and you can chain that to bound from surface to surface. It's a cool movement option in spaces where it won't just get you killed... I don't recall any section ever requiring it, though. And when I thought about why that is, I started seeing that the majority of...
Amazing art, good controls, very bad/lazy level design with large areas of copy & paste and seemingly random platform and enemy placement, level design feels overall low effort for the most part.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Garlic scores 60/100 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/1250440/garlicReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.