The Plucky Squire
Skip · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 8.4h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 (4096Mb) / Radeon RX 460 (4096Mb), 27 GB of storage. Windows only.
Storybook characters discover a three-dimensional world outside the pages of their book and must jump between 2D & 3D realms to save their friends in this charming action-adventure.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.89, set in March 2026. 12 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. On the same math PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC ($29.99, scores 53) and Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy ($11.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 18 of the 722 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 324 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% start to 30% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 02:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Got hooked by the 2D-3D feature but the gameplay and story are really linear and boring, would only recommend you buy this for a small kid or something like that, my nephew played it for a while and got bored too though
The Plucky Squire is a colorful, eternally slow movie that likes to mistake itself as a game, since sometimes you have to whack some enemies and jump on a few platforms. "Gameplay" is absurdly repetitive and limited but you don't exactly mind since there's a painfully long dialogue or cutscene every five f*cking seconds. This thing is so slow I dropped it twice mid run, decided to finish it and fast forwarded all...
A beautifully presented game with cute character design, story and puns. I did not play it for the combat, the puzzles, or if it had any difficulty progression system. It is just filled with child like wander, the mechanics and the textures of the book are so well made, and the shift in between 2D book and 3D Sam s room give it a different twist on making a different game, just here for something that felt different...
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Cite this score
The Plucky Squire scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1627570/the-plucky-squireReviews 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 1.
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