Garbanzo Quest

Garbanzo Quest

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
4.7h 11.8h to 100%
Value
$4.25/hr
Reviews
98% of 696 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 96% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$4.25/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 312 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

GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend! Hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths galore!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 553 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

22 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 49 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moonleap ($8.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Bread & Fred ($14.99, scores 45).

More about Garbanzo Quest

Of the 312 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 113 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 4.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 12, 2.5 times as much.

The drop-off

74% start to 12% 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

So, I found this game via a youtube short last year and finally got around to playing it - absolutely fantastic hidden gem of a platformer. If you like Celeste, you'll probably love this. It has similarly challenging levels that are so satisfying to finally clear (especially after dozens of attempts on no-damage runs!!). Each world has plenty of secrets to find, so if you're a completionist, get on in there. The...
BUPPYRecommendedafter 10h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
My favorite part about this game is that the creator was just making whatever he wanted. Its a pure passion project that we need more game developers to make nowadays
COBALTRecommendedafter 3.5hSep 2026Read on Steam
Lots of genuinely cool and interesting elements like the home/friend system and a lot of the world 2-3 platforming levels, but a TON of the later levels just felt contrived with artificial difficulty added through enemies that just follow you around like the fish or the smiley guy which were instituted instead of actually just trying to make interesting platforming.
InkBeanNot recommendedafter 6.8h1 found this helpfulRead 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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Garbanzo Quest scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2105910/garbanzo-quest
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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

Developerzagawee
Publisherzagawee
GenreMultiplayer
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements22