Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets

Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets

Fair · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.5h 10.7h to 100%
Value
$6.00/hr
Reviews
93% of 792 positive
It needs 21% off ($11.85) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.85 or less.

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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$6.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 345 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

Enjoy chill Lo-fi walks and fight bosses to K-POP, EDM and Hip-Hop inspired tracks. Features a quirky story, 30 handcrafted levels and various EX-modes to refresh your gameplay.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 860 or equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

39 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 80 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 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BARRIER X ($0.89, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).

More about Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets

This site sampled 345 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 4.3 times as long.

The drop-off

97% start to 2% 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

I'll preface my review with Rhythm Fans should give this a go at $2.99 USD. Even full price may be worth it. Simple, addictive, and at times can be pretty challenging considering it only uses 3 buttons (any face button, any D-pad direction and any bumper is how you hit certain notes) this freedom also lets you spice things up a bit on your own if you want too for an added challenge as well as each level having an...
Sea Level CainRecommendedafter 1.2hDec 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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Rhythm Sprout: Sick Beats & Bad Sweets scores 64/100 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/1475840/rhythm-sprout-sick-beats-bad-sweets
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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 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSURT
PublishertinyBuild
GenreAction
Released2023
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31