Peglin

Peglin

Fair · Roguelike · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour
$4.65/hr
Reviews▼
84% of 17,750
Genre rank
Top 28% Roguelike

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
4.3h
To 100%
66.1h 15.4x the story
Finish
25% reach the ending
Achievements
52

Price and sales

Sales
43 on record
Typical cut
30% off
Steam low
$11.99 March 2026
Sale every
38d last October 2026
Lowest now $11.99 at GOGall-time low $11.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
227 now
Recent reviews
81% 30 days
Cheaper than
9% of its genre
Better reviewed
63% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

90% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 43 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 30 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LONESTAR ($12.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($4.79, scores 54).

More about Peglin

14 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 1,071 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 4.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 66, 15 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ 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
Refunds14 of 800 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

What players say

Fun roguelite for a lil while, with no excessive meta-progression and satisfying "number go up" gameplay. It falls off quite a bit when you wget into the later stuff that makes the game longer/harder, where you will quickly find that the number of viable builds reduces drastically and even amongst those you might just get hard-countered by particular encounters. Overall still got a good few hours of exploration out...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 16h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Interesting combo of Peggle and Slay the Spire. I enjoyed the strategy of building your bag of orbs. Not too difficult to win. Unfortunately unlocking the other 3 characters is a grind.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 9.6h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Ah, I really wanted to enjoy this one, particularly considering the *hours* I put into Peggle when I was younger. However, where this lacks is in the very thing that is supposed to separate it from Peggle. The RPG elements are just... not strong enough to hold my attention. I don't know if I could have even made any suggestions for improvements, so I'm inclined to think this isn't even on the devs: I think there's...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 11hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Peglin is a Pachinko Roguelike - Fight enemies by collecting special orbs and popping pegs to deal damage. Acquire special relics that radically change the game and ensure no two runs are the same. Aim carefully to survive in this unique turn-based RPG!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Peglin scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1296610/peglin
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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 Oct 16, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperRed Nexus Games Inc.
PublisherRed Nexus Games Inc.
GenreRoguelike
Released2024
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements52