TaskPals

TaskPals

Skip · Short indie · 2023

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $2.99. Fair at $1.31, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2024 (lowest $1.49, Dec 2025).

Length
0.1h
Value
$29.90/hr
Reviews
91% positive
It needs 85% off ($0.44) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.

Buy now or wait

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

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
33% ($2.00)
Deepest seasonal cut
50% ($1.49)
Last discount ended
270 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$29.90
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
1,093 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

TaskPals is a simple companion app that brings life to your taskbar with cute and tiny pals.
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

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$29.90/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length0.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 18 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

It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 5 in the 2 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 39 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mini Cozy Room: Lo-Fi ($4.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Swag and Sorcery ($12.99, scores 2).

Players

20 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 01:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
TaskPals scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2235240/taskpals
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAscalon Games
PublisherAscalon Games
GenreShort indie
Released2023