BattleBlock Theater®
BANGER · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 10.2h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was November 2014. It has been discounted 77 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Castle Crashers® ($14.99, scores 97) and Broforce ($14.99, scores 93) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $74.76, and you are being asked for $14.99.
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 86 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. 12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 5,924 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.2 hours. Doing everything runs 43, 4.2 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to 86% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
78 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The pinnacle of my childhood on the Xbox 360. This game, plus Murder Miners. Still a fantastic, hilarious game, even after all these years.
Fun game, the last two chapters are a little too difficult for my taste. Would definitely recommend it, great voice acting too.
Absolute classic! Levels get more fun when you realize 60% of obstacles are optional if you have Frogs and Darts. Some of the humor hasn't aged very well, but what can ya do. Level editor is extremely well integrated, feels nice to use, and looks nice!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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BattleBlock Theater® scores 100/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238460/battleblock-theaterThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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