Pizza Hero

Pizza Hero

Worth it · Roguelike · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99.

Length
1.8h
Value
$1.11/hr
Reviews
89% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
50% ($0.99)
Last discount ended
270 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
28.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.11
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
980 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

Pizza Hero is a unique shoot 'em up roguelike. The toppings you select affect your abilities. For example, pepperoni throws grenades while blue cheese creates a pungent perimeter.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ 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$1.11/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length1.8 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 31 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in October 2024. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 5 in the 2 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 39 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is cheaper than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Desktop Survivors 98 ($4.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Scarlet Tower ($4.99, scores 53).

HowLongToBeat players log 1.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 16 times as much.

The drop-off

16% start to <1% 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

Pizza Hero is a wonderfully fun little romp! WELL worth the money and time spent! A SOLID, SOLID 16+ hours enjoyed! Thank You! 🍕
RhythmScholarRecommendedafter 16hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Pizza Hero scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2202770/pizza-hero
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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 28, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAstro Hound
PublisherAstro Hound
GenreRoguelike
Released2024
Achievements75