Kandidatos
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Onboard 128MB or higher, 82 MB of storage. Windows only.
Fight in the biggest political tournament in Brazil.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.29. That was January 2023. It has been discounted 62 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Clone Drone in the Danger Zone ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Gang Beasts ($19.99, scores 51).
Of the 612 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 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 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 146 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 2,819 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 82 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 07:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Why debate politics when you can just put the candidates in a fighting tournament? Completely ridiculous, full of memes and surprisingly entertaining for what it is.
Kandidatos, developed and published by Shaikonina Games, is a humorous and chaotic fighting game that merges political satire with over-the-top combat. Set against the backdrop of a fictional election-inspired tournament, it invites players to take on the roles of exaggerated caricatures of political figures who settle their ideological battles not through debates, but through brutal hand-to-hand brawls. The concept...
I'm sure 99% of people don't read the reviews. So I don't think whoever wins or whoever loses, or whoever wins or loses, is going to win or lose. Everyone is going to lose.
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Cite this score
Kandidatos scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1395560/kandidatosReviews 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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