Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 48, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $3.96/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660/AMD Radeon HD 7950, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
It’s About Time - the critically-acclaimed Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It's About Time is now on Steam!
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
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $11.99. It has been discounted 34 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy ($39.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Asterix & Obelix XXL: Romastered ($19.99, scores 28).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 442 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 10.1 hours; clearing it takes 86, which is 8.5 times the campaign.
At 10.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
91% 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
173 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 05:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I have played many hard games, but this one has bested me. I hate it from the bottom of my heart and I have ragequit out of pure frustration. I did not think to ever find a game that would truly drive me insane. But this is it, well done.
After 20 years, I just came back to play the new version of the Crash Bandicoot franchise, and here we are: I don't know what its developers consumed during the game design, but it took me almost two years to finish the game. Souls-like games are just like adventure games beside this franchise, tbh. After each mission, my body refused to play one more mission, and each level reduced a percentage of my own lifetime...
I did not finish this game, does that mean its bad? Definitely not, Crash 4 is the hardest crash game whether you go for the gems or not, personally i just didnt find it that satisfying to complete the levels. This game is ragebait and a perfectionists dream. As i have no rose tinted nostalgia glasses for the crash series the drive to complete the levels or perfect them wasn't there. The game is good, and it asks a...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Crash Bandicoot™ 4: It’s About Time scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1378990/crash-bandicoot-4-it-s-about-timeReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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