Mutant Mudds Deluxe

Mutant Mudds Deluxe

Skip · Action · 2013

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 36, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
4.5h 9.1h to 100%
Value
$2.22/hr
Reviews
75% of 625 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Engagement7% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.22/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 158 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

About the game

Love pixels? Fond of platformers? Is there a special place in your heart for the 8-bit and 16-bit era? Want to have fun? Yes!? Well, you’ve come to the right place, my friend. Mutant Mudds Deluxe is a “12-bit” action platformer full of pixels and platforming fun!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D Graphics Card, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 80 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Volgarr the Viking ($9.99, scores 56) and La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58) both outscore it.

More about Mutant Mudds Deluxe

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 114 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.

4.5 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.

The drop-off

29% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

Simply made but difficult to master pixel arcade platforming game. Rising in difficulty, this game cleverly progresses into the harder levels, teaching the new mechanics until the player learns to pass them with precision, timing and accuracy. There are some levels with very tight gaps, yet almost everything has enough room for breathing and at almost no point the game seems unfair to do the specific task in the...
IvakichanRecommendedafter 13hApr 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Good retro platformer with two levels of depth where you switch back and forth. I recommend grabbing this game on 3DS if you have a chance.
👾 🅼 🅰❎👾Recommendedafter 4.7hSep 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Mutant Mudds Deluxe scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/247370/mutant-mudds-deluxe
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAtooi
PublisherAtooi
GenreAction
Released2013
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10