Peglin
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.3h
- Value
- $4.65/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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!
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.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was March 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 30 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LONESTAR ($5.19, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Across the Obelisk ($19.99, scores 56).
16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 1,065 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.
The drop-off
90% start to 24% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
574 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
way too determined by luck over skill and poorly balanced. the paintress is genuinely such a badly designed level.
Its pretty sad that this game is hard wired to drop cheapest tactics ever when you climb the difficulty. Suddenly, at difficulties 5 or higher, physics is broken, pebbles are moving EXTREMELY random and not to mention the cheap moves of hiding the refresh orb in the worst possible places which you cannot even get in like 3 rounds. Bossess and enemies are also hard wire to counter every type of pebbles that you have...
I will never write a detailed and coherent enough review that correctly sums up the over two thousand hours I have sunk into this game in less than two years. That's over three hours EVERY DAY. Does that help you understand how addictive this game is? I am attached to Peglin and his plight. I have intense love and hate relationships with different builds, ball types and enemy types. My spatial awareness and...
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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Peglin scores 62/100 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/1296610/peglinThe 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 19, price as of Sep 24.
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