STANDBOX
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 21% ($6.31)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 22% ($6.23)
- Last discount ended
- 190 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: A dedicated DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 compatible graphics card, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.23. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 21 percent off as a rule. There have been 9 in the 3 years tracked, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 27 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, People Playground ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Guts and Glory ($14.99, scores 44).
39 of the 563 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 597 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 468 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
92% 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
26 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 17:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
STANDBOX scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2246880/standboxReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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