Pesticide Not Required
Worth it · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.92, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2024.
- Length
- 10.1h
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 55% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($4.22)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($3.25)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 799 MB of storage. Windows only.
Mow down countless crops and corrupt critters while crafting game-breaking builds! Pesticide Not Required is an action roguelite bullet heaven game with farming sim elements that offers a myriad of stats and special character traits to create wildly diverse run possibilities.
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
The lowest price on record is $2.92, set in October 2026. 23 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 35 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.92 at 55 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. The nearest things to it, Bounty of One ($2.79, scores 66) and NIMRODS ($9.99, scores 59), are both worse buys on this math.
Of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 171 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 2.8 times as much.
The drop-off
81% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 16:54 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A vamp clone with more in-game tasks to keep you engaged. I killed 24 hours playing this silly little game. So, thumbs up.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pesticide Not Required scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2479320/pesticide-not-requiredReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.
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