Penny’s Big Breakaway
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Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $9.89.
- Length
- 6.4h
- Value
- $1.55/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 67% off today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($14.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($11.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or ATI Radeon HD 7850. Windows only.
Ready. Set. YO! - Join Penny & Yo-Yo in a kinetic 3D-platformer bursting with innovative gameplay! Showcase your catalog of tricks and chain impressive combos to deliver Penny & Yo-Yo's perfect breakout performance. Take the stage with this vibrant pair in Penny’s Big Breakaway.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.89, set in June 2026. 21 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $9.89 at 67 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 37. The current cut is what makes it a 50.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Hat in Time ($29.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats I Am Fish ($19.99, scores 28).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 515 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 51 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
6.4 hours to finish it, 13 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
74% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Sometimes the zipline works and sometimes it makes you go back to the checkpoint.. bad camera angles for all this platforming . good music though.
Feeling reminiscent on how much fun I had on my first playthrough, I downloaded Penny's Big Breakaway and went for a second. I regret it. Let's go over why: The Good: + Visuals: Very bright but pleasing, filled with popping pastel colors and inventive ways they catch your eye, ranging from the poles you swing around to the platforms you bounce on to even the designs of the characters. Speaking of, the characters are...
Unpolished overall, but has satisfying movement when it works right. As with many Sonic games before it, dealing with changing gravity results in a whole lot of jank, and this game is definitely full of some jank. Clipping through the floor, falling sideways into oblivion, falling infinitely without ever hitting a kill plane, it's all here. Other annoyances include a decoupling between audio on the opening splash...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Penny’s Big Breakaway 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/1955230/penny-s-big-breakawayReviews 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 1.
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