Donut Dodo

Donut Dodo

Fair · Action · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. A BANGER at $2.21, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2022 (lowest $3.49, Jun 2023).

Length
1.1h 3.5h to 100%
Value
$9.08/hr
Reviews
96% of 288 positive
It needs 78% off ($2.21) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $5.88.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.21 or less.

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

Raising the score
Reviews96% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$9.08/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 217 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

If a long lost arcade game from 1983 resurfaced today, it would be Donut Dodo - a classic 2D platformer from the golden era, tough as nails and challenging for the whole family! Ready to top the high score table?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 40 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $2.21. No recorded sale has reached it yet.

On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BZZZT ($11.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Pepper Grinder ($14.99, scores 54).

More about Donut Dodo

This site sampled 217 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1.1 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 3.2 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

78% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

لعبة اركيديه من 5 مستويات سريعه لمن توصل المرحله الخامسه تعيدها مره ثانيه بصعوبه اعلى شوية وتكون هي التختيمه الاخيره اللعبه ما تتفوت لو تحب التحدي السريع, لو لك في الاركيد الي كانت زمان موجوده ايام الثمانينات حتنبسط اكثر واكثر اللعبه فيها تحدي رهيب وممتع سريعه واتشيفمنت ممتعه في وقت بسيط لو تبغا تجرب مهاراتك من وقت ما شغلتها ادمنتها للنهاية ماحسيتها ظلمتني بالصعوبه بس يبغالك تتعلمها مع اللعب اذا حسيت الجرافكس جوك لا...
a-livingsandwichRecommendedafter 4.7hMar 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Game is so fun, The music is so good, animations are amazing, and if you like old arcade games like this, you should give it a shot and cant wait for the sequel
BigBlazeRecommendedafter 3.2hNov 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Donut Dodo scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1779560/donut-dodo
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developerpixel games SARL-S
Publisherpixel games SARL-S
GenreAction
Released2022
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10