Bish Bash Bots

Bish Bash Bots

Skip · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 37, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
12.6h 14.5h to 100%
Value
$1.59/hr
Reviews
76% of 211 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Holding it back
Value$1.59/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 75% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 145 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Bish Bash Bots is a unique mix of casual tower defense strategy and all-out brawling action. Team up in couch co-op / online play or go it alone and fight to save the world by building upgradable turrets, unlocking gadgets and bashing bots with giant hammers.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 870, 1 GB | AMD Radeon R7 250, 1 GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

22 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 32 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Topple Tactics ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Tools Up! ($19.99, scores 36).

More about Bish Bash Bots

At 12.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

81% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Played with my girlfriend, took us 8~ hours to finish (4 sessions) The game's got style and lots of fun and quick mechanics to it, definitely feels close to what we love in a classic Tower Defence game but with the "on foot" experience on walking around the track of the enemies There is struggle with understanding where you are amidst chaos, especially in later levels. Also, we replayed the first level twice not...
Nero_Recommendedafter 8.9hMay 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
If you saw "Couch-Coop Tower Defence" and wanted to jump right in, I don't blame you. I did too. This tower defence game has a good style, decent music and a cool concept.... that utterly fails in its delivery. ((TL;DR: There is a reason that 74% of players have played enough to pick their first gadget, but only 43% have finished the second area. This game drops it's players off a cliff with bad design choices.))...
cyrik.riandNot recommendedafter 12hAug 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Bish Bash Bots scores 37/100 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/1424860/bish-bash-bots
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Reviews 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 2, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCATASTROPHIC_OVERLOAD
PublisherBalor Games
GenreAction
Released2023
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements40