Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Worth it · Action · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $1.61/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 256MB or higher, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.
"The most rewarding game of 2013!" Influenced by retro classics Mega Man and Castlevania, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures features the AVGN and friends as they blast their way through 10 levels of fun, fast paced 2D action based on the AVGN's adventures in his online series.
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
The value story
February 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 34 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Messenger ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove ($39.99, scores 61).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 360 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 710 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
50% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 3.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
If you want to buy this, you should opt for the I & II deluxe version of this game as it's just plain superior. This is a difficult action platformer in 8-bit style. It's got some familiar references from AVGN that crack me up, but I mostly enjoyed the old school , punishing jump and shoot gameplay I've come to love from games like Mega Man. Albeit, this game, in my opinion, is harder thand any Mega Man game I've...
Played this suuuper late, I know, I was feeling nostalgic for Nerd content with the 20th youtube anniversary. Honestly not anywhere near as bad as I've heard about it; it's challenging but nothing TOO insane outside of the super high difficulties, and even then it's all about memorization and execution like the classic NES games it's modeled after. Fairly short and not a whole lot going on to set it apart from even...
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Cite this score
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures scores 75/100 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/237740/angry-video-game-nerd-adventuresReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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