Bots Are Stupid
Skip · Short indie · 2022
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 6.5h 8.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 234 positive
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
About the game
An ultra-precise 2D platformer where you give robots instructions instead of directly controlling them. Master the campaign levels or create and share your own. “It’s Mario Maker with coding” - Lewis Brindley, Yogscast.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1004 MB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R9 270, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 35 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. On the same math Hexologic ($1.24, scores 93) and I hate this game ($1.99, scores 90) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The drop-off
98% start to 2% rarestNo 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 11:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Essentially TAS simulator. All the fun lies in trying to figure out how to break the game's physics and reduce your times as much as possible. Unfortunately for me, it turned out to be too difficult of an exercise, and I mostly just stuck to playing it as a platformer where you input all the commands at the start of the level, which bored me pretty quickly...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
TL;DR: Interesting concept but it gets old far too fast for what it could be, and the advertisement is misleading enough to leave a bad taste in my mouth. Despite all the talk that "It's Mario Maker with coding", this is a TAS-ing game thorugh and through. There is no logic puzzle to solve, it's all a question of finding perfect values to wait for. And more importantly, there is nothing there that could make it a...
Great concept I personally can't get past the first non tutorial stage but I'm awful. Even then, I would recommend it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bots Are Stupid scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1578160/bots-are-stupidReviews 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.