Annalynn

Annalynn

Worth it · Action · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $4.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.68.

Length
1h 13.5h to 100%
Value
$4.99/hr
Reviews
98% of 664 positive
It needs 26% off ($3.68) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.68 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 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
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 96% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement40% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.99/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
Refunds0 of 309 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

Annalynn is a 2D platformer made in the style of arcade games from the early '80s. Collect the coins, grab the bonus foods, and turn the tables with blinding rubies! Think you've got what it takes to go for the high score?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 17 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 14 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $3.68. The record reaches that level 11 times.

Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, UFO 50 ($24.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Pepper Grinder ($14.99, scores 54).

More about Annalynn

Steam's global achievement data puts 40 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 309 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 311 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.

1 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 14 times the campaign.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

67% start to 40% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

This is too flawed to enjoy. If you have gamepad plugged in, you are NOT ALLOWED to use keyboard in any capacity. It doesn't matter if your gamepad d-pad is bad, busted, or if you just prefer playing on keyboard - tough luck. You have to MANUALLY UNPLUG the gamepad to play on the keyboard. That is unacceptable. Second, even when you start the game the balance is all over the place. You have unlimited continues with...
shinosarnaNot recommendedafter 1.3h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Annalynn scores 79/100 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/1508460/annalynn
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 Sep 28, 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

DeveloperCruise Elroy
PublisherCruise Elroy
GenreAction
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13