Spelunky
Worth it · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 20.3h
- Value
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3D graphics card, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.
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
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in October 2017. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 58 in the 13 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 11 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Risk of Rain (2013) ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Vagante ($14.99, scores 73).
8 of the 719 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,456 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 20.3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 96, 4.7 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
75% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 20.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
60 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
I've been playing Spelunky for a long time, ever since I first seen it as a free demo on my psvita back in 2013. It only consisted of the first area, "the mines" but I must have played and replayed that demo well over a thousand times. My mother I suppose got fed up of me talking about it so much that she gifted me a psn card for easter one year in order to buy it, I was ecstatic. Well into my high school years I...
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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Spelunky scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/239350/spelunkyThe 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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