BattleBlock Theater®

BattleBlock Theater®

BANGER · Action · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$4.4970% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$1.47/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 72,994
Critics
85 players 12 higher
Genre rank
Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
10.2h
To 100%
43.3h 4.2x the story
Finish
86% reach the ending
Achievements
30

Price and sales

Sales
78 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$1.49 November 2014
Sale every
39d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
86 now
Recent reviews
97% 30 days
Cheaper than
13% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

86% start to 86% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 78 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity ($9.99, scores 55) and Bread & Fred ($14.99, scores 44) both come in lower.

The math says it holds its tier up to $75.63, and you are being asked for $14.99.

More about BattleBlock Theater®

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 18. 12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 5,930 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Replayability~43h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 10h main story
Engagement86% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.47/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds12 of 800 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

What players say

I beat this game and I suddenly had the urge to buckle my pants and make potato salad 10/10.
GigaMelonRecommendedafter 10h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
An amazing game Excellent level design a compelling and fun story and world another great game from The Behemoth.
mahdioRecommendedafter 22hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Cite this score

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BattleBlock Theater® scores 100/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/238460/battleblock-theater
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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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+12
Critics85
Players97
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 72,994 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperThe Behemoth
PublisherThe Behemoth
GenreAction
Released2014
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements30