Guacamelee! Gold Edition
BANGER · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.74.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.60/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 6,017
- Critics
- 88 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.2h
- To 100%
- 14.5h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 60
Price and sales
- Sales
- 96 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 March 2018
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Cheaper than
- 13% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
78% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
March 2018 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Across all 96 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Guacamelee! 2 ($19.99, scores 64) and No Time To Explain Remastered ($14.99, scores 43), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $6.06.
More about Guacamelee! Gold Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 1 of the 364 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Pros: - Luchador action - Metroid references - Tight controls and good design - Memes Cons: - Repetitive combat - Rolling constantly is unironically the fastest way around for a while and that's annoying It's an indie classic, not without flaws, but solid and very lovingly made. This is an example of what video games should be, and I firmly believe this game has been a positive example for indie Metroidvanias since.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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...
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.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Guacamelee! Gold Edition scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214770/guacamelee-gold-editionReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.