Troublemaker
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $2.98/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 or AMD R9 270X, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
Grab a backpack, boxing tape, and focus on what high school is all about: Beating the ever loving crap out of one another! Troublemaker blends favorite action-adventure-beat-'em-up elements from the strongest traditions in the genre.
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
It has never been cheaper than $6.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 32 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name ($49.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Like a Dragon: Ishin! ($39.99, scores 48).
Steam's global achievement data puts 45 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 397 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to 45% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 04:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is super charming and has a loveable level of jank that calls me back to my hay days of playing video games. Unfortunately, there is enough broken that I feel like it warrants a negative review - although I wish I could just give a neutral vote. My favorite part is the fighting gameplay is really solid and for the most part feels responsive. Definitely inspired by Assassin's Creed / Batman Arkham /...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Troublemaker scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1498740/troublemakerReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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