The Crackpet Show
Fair · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.4h
- Value
- $1.27/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 852 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
The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX compatible graphics, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
46 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Voidigo ($2.49, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats AK-xolotl: Together ($18.99, scores 37).
More about The Crackpet Show
Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
At 13.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
85% 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
What players say
this game is so cool, ik, ik, this is the best review you've ever read in all your life
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Crackpet Show scores 58/100 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/1390700/the-crackpet-showReviews 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 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.