KickBeat Steam Edition
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.6h 8.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 67% of 773 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
About the game
From indie pioneers Zen Studios (makers of Pinball FX2 and CastleStorm) comes KickBeat, an innovative rhythm game with a Kung Fu theme, featuring fully 3D characters and high-energy music! You can use your own music to create custom KickBeat tracks, allowing you ultimate replayability!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 54 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math Melatonin ($14.99, scores 76) and One Finger Death Punch 2 ($7.99, scores 95) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about KickBeat Steam Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 67 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
2.6 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
52% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I'm not much of a rhythm game kinda guy but I like what KickBeat is doing here. I only wish that it did more. With only 24 tracks, there is little variation in genre. Not a bad selection by any means, I just was not expecting it to be mostly Hard Rock/NuMetal. Visually it looks good, and has a lot going on screen. At first, this can be very challenging but overtime you ease into it. Probably just as entertaining to...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
KickBeat Steam Edition scores 17/100 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/255370/kickbeat-steam-editionReviews 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.