World of Goo
Worth it · Short indie · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.67.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
World of Goo is a multiple award winning physics based puzzle / construction game made entirely by two guys.
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
October 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 47 in the 14 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.67. The record reaches that level 37 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 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! 2 ($1.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Haunt the House: Terrortown ($4.99, scores 67).
This site sampled 400 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 1,446 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 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
12% start to 1% 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
Players
20 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
I am 14 going on 15 on September 6, and I remember absolutely loving this game, so it's realy fun to play it again! <3
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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World of Goo scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/22000/world-of-gooThe 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 Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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