Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
BANGER · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2021.
- Length
- 13.2h 16.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.76/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 534 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
The Freelance Police are back on the crime beat in a newly remastered version of their second episodic season. Zombies will dance. Mariachis will sing. A giant battle robot will trash the streets. And when their friends’ lives are at stake, Sam & Max will risk their very souls to set things right.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia GTS 450+ with 1024MB+ VRAM (excluding GT), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was April 2025. It has been discounted 26 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Sam & Max Save the World ($9.99, scores 89) and Unforeseen Incidents ($19.99, scores 58).
$17.51 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 15 points higher at 99 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
None of the 304 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
60% start to 14% 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
- 8 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 17:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
the fairly faithful continuation of the last game except with the advent of a lot more daring ideas like time travel, portals and more outlandish unique new locations, concepts and characters; which Is why its probably my favourite in the trilogy, its on the same page as save the world with many more things fleshed out and more to add. the devils playhouse is technically the end but it also does its own thing so...
2 more reviews
An awesome remaster with a ton of love poured into it. The animations are higher-quality than the original and the voice acting are higher-quality too. The writing is hilarious as it always was and the visuals are GORGEOUS. Highly recommend.
Better story, better puzzles, better humor, and still could reasonably run on a rock. This game definitely shows improvement over the first one. The voice direction is better, there's more variety to plotlines and environments, it's just a better game overall. Coming from Save the World, it may seem odd that this game only has 5 episodes instead of 6. However, I think these episodes are longer and better thought...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1747050/sam-max-beyond-time-and-spaceReviews 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.