BBQ Simulator: The Squad
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 70% ($1.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 80% ($0.79)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 Ti (2 GB VRAM) or AMD Radeon RX 460 (2 GB VRAM) or higher, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Dive into a hilarious sandbox BBQ experience with friends! Grill, serve, and manage mayhem as meats soar and sizzle. Craft your grill, cook steaks, and feed everyone before hunger strikes!
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in September 2025. Its cuts run 55 percent off as a rule. There have been 43 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SuchArt: Creative Space (free, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Cafe Owner Simulator ($18.99, scores 11).
This site sampled 470 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 673 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 601 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
73% start to <1% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
BBQ Simulator: The Squad scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1755350/bbq-simulator-the-squadReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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