Tape to Tape

Tape to Tape

Worth it · Roguelike · 2023 · Early Access

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
5.9h
Value
$3.39/hr
Reviews
92% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.9h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
41h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.39
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
92%
3,714 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2 GB Memory, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.

Tape to Tape is a roguelite hockey game where every choice matters on your journey to build the best hockey team. Choose your path, hire unique players, discover synergies between them, pick unique abilities, bribe the referees or visit the Blademaster on your way to restore hockey's former glory.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
Value$3.39/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length5.9 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds10 of 572 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was October 2024. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 27 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. The nearest things to it, Rogue Glitch Ultra ($11.99, scores 71) and Inkbound ($29.99, scores 66), are both worse buys on this math.

This site sampled 572 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 496 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 41, 6.9 times as much.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

82% 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

Players

17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

remote playing this game with friends is so money. Give these Devs an Oscar for the replays and good times
Dunk DunkinRecommendedafter 35h1 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam
It's pretty good but there still is a huge niche to be filled for PC hockey titles! Keep your stick on the ice, eh! 7.7/10 would deke again
OrangeChickenTacoRecommendedafter 2.0hSep 2026early accessRead on Steam
It's hockey with personality, strategy, and a dash of madness - and that's what keeps it fresh every time you jump back in.
BravoDGr8Recommendedafter 5.7hAug 2026early accessRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Tape to Tape scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1566200/tape-to-tape
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperExcellent Rectangle
PublisherExcellent Rectangle
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements18