Chained Together
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 82% over the last 30 days against 90% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Climb up from the depths of Hell. Scale various worlds solo or chained together with your friends in the 1-4 player platforming sensation.
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was September 2025. It has been discounted 18 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 15 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Human Fall Flat ($5.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Ale & Tale Tavern ($14.99, scores 72).
Players rate it 90 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 82 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 13 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 7,596 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 10, 2.0 times as much.
The drop-off
94% start to <1% 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
1,154 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
Okay real quick thought on Chained Together. Me and my friend hopped into this expecting some casual little puzzle platformer. Wow, we were so wrong. You get chained to another player. Sounds easy enough. But your teammate can ruin everything without even trying. I'd line up a perfect jump, and out of nowhere she just bolts off sideways, yanks me right off the cliff with her. So many stupid deaths that were nobody's...
Very fun coop game. If you want to spend two evenings full of laugher with your friends, you won't be dissapointed.
Chained Together is one of those games that can be incredibly fun and incredibly frustrating at the same time. The idea is simple: you and your friends are chained together and have to climb as high as possible without falling. The controls can take some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, working together and making it further than before can be really satisfying. Of course, watching your friend fall...
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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Chained Together scores 77/100 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/2567870/chained-togetherThe 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 23.
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