Pinball Arcade

Pinball Arcade

Skip · Strategy · 2013

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
74% of 4,181
Genre rank
Top 32% Strategy

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Time and effort

Main story
1h
To 100%
50h 50.0x the story
Achievements
300

Players and genre

Online
23 now
Better reviewed
53% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

24% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Its score sits in the top 32 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pinball FX Classic (free, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Battle Tanks: World War II (free, scores 16).

It is still busy. 23 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 2, 18:48 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.

More about Pinball Arcade

1 hour to finish it, 50 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 50 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Pinball Arcade by FarSight Studios features exact recreations of the all-time greatest pinball tables from Stern Pinball® and Gottlieb® together in one game. Every flipper, bumper, sound effect, and display pixel has been painstakingly emulated in astonishing detail.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card supporting DirectX 9.0c and Shader Model 3.0, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Pinball Arcade scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238260/pinball-arcade
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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 Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperFarSight Studios
PublisherFarSight Studios
GenreStrategy
Released2013
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements300