Guacamelee! Gold Edition
BANGER · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.74.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $0.60/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Shader Model 3.0, 256 MB VRAM, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Guacamelee! is a Metroidvania-style action-platformer set in a magical Mexican-inspired world. The game draws its inspiration from traditional Mexican culture and folklore, and features many interesting and unique characters.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 94 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.74 at 75 percent off still sits 151 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 69 at list, 90 today.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SteamWorld Dig 2 ($2.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats No Time To Explain Remastered ($14.99, scores 43).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $6.06. It costs $3.74.
Steam's global achievement data says about 7 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 1 of the 363 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 336 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
6.2 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
At 6.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
78% start to 7% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Guacamelee! Gold Edition Review I bought Guacamelee! fully expecting a game about punching avocados into fresh guacamole. I pictured intense avocado combat, competitive salsa-making, and maybe a final boss that was a giant tortilla chip. I was wrong. Instead, I got a magical luchador fighting skeletons, hopping between dimensions, and occasionally turning into a chicken. And that's okay. Not once did I successfully...
A classic of the genre and a must-play for every Metroidvania fan. Great combat, a well-designed world, beautiful art style, funny dialogue, and an interesting story. On top of that, there are tons of secrets and easter eggs to find. Highly recommended. It's best to play Super Turbo Championship Edition right away since it's basically the same game as Gold Edition but with extra content.
I was thinking this was a metroidvania, but it has mixed in timed special move button combo fighting, which for a casual like me I'm not going to come back to and relearn all the moves each time I want to play for the 10 minutes I want to share with it.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Guacamelee! Gold Edition scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214770/guacamelee-gold-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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