World of Goo
Worth it · Short indie · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 67% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9467% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.50/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 6,620
- Critics
- 90 players 4 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.94 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 14.1h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 8
Price and sales
- Sales
- 49 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2013
- Sale every
- 49d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 18 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
13% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 49 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.67. The record reaches that level 38 times.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! X ($1.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Haunt the House: Terrortown ($4.99, scores 68).
More about World of Goo
This site sampled 402 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 1,449 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
6 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
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
Literal perfection in video game form. The gameplay. Perfect. The artistry. Perfect. The story. Perfect. The music. Perfect. The vibe. Perfect You are depriving yourself if you have not experienced this gem.
1 more review
CHildhood game. Its still as good as I remember!!! I also heard this game makes criticism to consumerism, I can see why. Kinda.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
World of Goo scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22000/world-of-gooReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.