Big Helmet Heroes
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $5.68/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 8 and Oct 21, at about $8.74 (65% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($9.99)
- Last discount ended
- 21 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 1060. Windows only.
Throw yourself into an epic 3D beat’em up adventure with adorable knights, full of surprising worlds and situations. Grab your buddy and play in 2 player co-op to save the princess, but this is only the beginning!
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
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $8.74. 18 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 50 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Castle Crashers® ($14.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Sacred Citadel ($2.49, scores 20).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 445 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 692 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.4 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.1 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
85% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
20 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 07:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Big Helmet Heroes scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2397250/big-helmet-heroesReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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