BALAN WONDERWORLD
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 11.4h 35.9h to 100%
- Value
- $3.51/hr
- Reviews
- 54% of 631 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Welcome to BALAN WONDERWORLD—a wondrous all-action show, the likes of which has never been seen before! Over 80 different costumes give you all the action that you could possibly imagine!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R9 270X / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. On the same math Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66) and Marble It Up! Ultra ($29.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about BALAN WONDERWORLD
14 of the 452 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 170 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 14 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11.4 hours; clearing it takes 36, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to 3% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 09:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
i actually really like this game, its very charming and fun but confusing. a lot of the lore and story was hidden in a book so you never really know what's happening which is a shame because i think the lore is really cool and fun and you should totally go read the book.
1 more review, not recommended
Balan Wonderworld is exactly what I expected. I didn't think it would be good -rarely do you hear such unanimous criticism- but I was curious to see whether it was exceptionally bad or just a normal, though underwhelming, experience. And unsurprisingly, it turned out to be the former, just as so many people have already warned. Balan is in a weird position, suffering from the exact opposite problem of most other...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BALAN WONDERWORLD scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1341050/balan-wonderworldReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.