Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 5, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.5h 11.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 59% of 391 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Help Dr. Fetus create the perfect Meat Boy clone in a unique new twist on the tile-matching puzzle genre. In classic Meat Boy fashion, an endless cavalcade of devious and deadly traps stand between you and victory in this hardcore puzzle game that will push your skills to the limit.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
34 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. On the same math Orbt XL ($0.59, scores 95) and Marble It Up! Ultra ($29.99, scores 71) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine
76 on Metacritic, 59 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
7 of the 319 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 302 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 159 reviews written there were positive, against 59 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.5 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 2.2 times as long.
At 5.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
44% start to 2% 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
What players say
I don't know, Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine is a really really weird game that nobody asked for. Even so, it's still a decent and entertaining game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I bought some bundle and this was included either for free, or very cheap. So for that price, it's an okay time waster. I don't think it's as bad as others are trying to make it look.
It truly is just not all too fun, I will however give the game props for the soundtrack and opening cutscene, the soundtrack is probably the only thing that will make me keep playing, 4/10, would not recommend even while on sale, unless you want the Dr. Fetus emote, then maybe buy it.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Dr. Fetus' Mean Meat Machine scores 5/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2228030/dr-fetus-mean-meat-machineReviews 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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.