Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®
Worth it · Narrative · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 12.6h 14.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 4,539 positive
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Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe™, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon™, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
61 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® ($2.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee ($4.99, scores 49).
More about Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee®
1 of the 407 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 723 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
I know this game is generally held in a positive light in the zeitgeist, but imo it's not heralded as the absolute masterpiece it is. Still holds up today; the art style, the mechanics and the themes are all just as relevant and satisfying today as they were THIRTY YEARS AGO. I would be lying if I said there wasn't a touch of 90s jank, but it's more than permissable compared to most other games from the 90s/early...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® scores 71/100 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/15700/oddworld-abe-s-oddyseeReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.