POPGOES Arcade
BANGER · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 25% ($3.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($3.24)
- Last discount ended
- 190 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Minimum 512 MB card, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
Battle the corrupt animals of the forest, collect valuable items and abilities, and save the world, TWICE, in this retro-styled RPG adventure! As an official spinoff of the Five Nights at Freddy's horror game series, you can expect familiar characters, loads of secrets, and maybe some scares...
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
November 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $3.24. 17 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 27 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hyper Light Drifter ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Evoland Legendary Edition ($4.99, scores 59).
The math says it holds its tier up to $6.44, and you are being asked for $4.99.
Of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.2 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 2.9 times as long.
The drop-off
35% start to 8% 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
POPGOES Arcade scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1986840/popgoes-arcadeReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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