PEPPERED: an existential platformer
BANGER · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $8.99.
- Length
- 1.5h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $5.99/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 718 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
An existential platformer where Doomsday is just around the corner. Save the world or become an eternal corporate slave for the God of Death. Choices matter. Or do they? Goof around and find out.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 16 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $8.99 at 40 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Celeste ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Caves of Qud ($29.99, scores 81).
More about PEPPERED: an existential platformer
Steam's global achievement data puts 78 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 324 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
The main story runs 1.5 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 5.3 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
78% start to 78% 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
What players say
👍 Recommended Tao was told to save world. Tao did not save world. Tao got job instead. Tao failed to make coffee because Tao forgot how Up works. Somehow Tao got promoted. Then Tao worked for many many years while scary God of Death problem became somebody else's problem. Very good game. Funny writing, pretty pixel art, nice animation, and game lets Tao make extremely questionable life decisions. Tao may play again...
2 more reviews
Not even halfway through getting all the achievements, but i must express how much of a breath of fresh air this game is. I had this game on my steam wishlist for years, waiting for its anticipated release, and it was worth it. It almost felt like playing a movie with multiple different endings, with the different stylistic visual events that happens throughout the game. One of the most unique video games out there...
Insanely addictive platformer with a brilliant story! I recommend getting all the endings!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PEPPERED: an existential platformer scores 86/100 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/1883370/peppered-an-existential-platformerReviews 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.