Decline's Drops

Decline's Drops

Worth it · Action · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
8h 10.4h to 100%
Value
$1.87/hr
Reviews
95% of 230 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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

Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement11% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.87/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
Refunds2 of 167 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

Grab your punching gloves, put your clogs on and smash your way in the world of Decline's Drops, a fully hand-drawn platform-brawler full of weird frogs, bizarre chickens and odd hydras! Avenge your destroyed garden and defeat the 6 heads of the Eternal Corp.! If you can, that is.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 510, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

20 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 3 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, La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats They Bleed Pixels ($2.49, scores 65).

More about Decline's Drops

Steam's global achievement data puts about 11 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

42% start to 11% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 08:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

This game had my attention as soon as I found out about it; a 2D platformer that controls like Smash? This is right up my alley as someone who's been playing the Smash series somewhat competitively on and off for around a decade. I am happy to report that the controls of this thing feel spot on for what it's trying to emulate; Globule (the protagonist) controls very fluidly and responsively, and has a very easy to...
I'm built differentRecommendedafter 5.7hJun 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
it's peak your honor pros: - smooth gameplay - CPU usage is non-existent - short but understandable and involved story - get to beat the hell out of chickens cons: - controller is necessary, keyboard controls are clunky - learning curve is a bit steep for people that don't play fast platformers still worth learning however!
quarterRecommendedafter 13hFeb 2026Read 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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Decline's Drops scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1500180/decline-s-drops
Embed the live badge

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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLe Moulin aux Bulles
PublisherLe Moulin aux Bulles
GenreAction
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14