1001 Spikes
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$13.73Fair
- Length
- 7.2h 17.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 773 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.73 or less.
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
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About the game
Discover the lost treasures of Ukampa in South America as Aban Hawkins searches for his estranged father, world-famous archeaologist, Jim Hawkins. Aban Hawkins races into the frozen tundra of the antarctic, undiscovered temple ruins and the vast caverns of South America in search of his father and the legendary treasure rumored to lie...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 60 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) and Celeste ($4.99, scores 97) both outscore it.
More about 1001 Spikes
Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
7.2 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
24% start to 3% 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
What players say
There is a lot of spikes. That much is true. Though I'm pretty sure there are more than 1,001. Expect a hard as *spikes* trial-and-error gameplay experience. You will die. A. LOT. Note: despite the game advertising Steam Cloud support, it does not actually support it.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
1001 Spikes has the best platformer level design I've seen. People say that it involves a lot of trial and error, that's only true if you're not paying attention - the game quickly establishes in the first area that hidden traps are not placed randomly, there are subtle hints in tile sprites, level shapes and most importantly: where would it be most inconvenient for you the player. Once you internalize this, you...
One of the worst platformers I have ever played, 99% of deaths are cheap deaths by traps that just pops up with no logical placements so you have to replay levels until you remember where every hidden trap is which is just bad design
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
1001 Spikes scores 49/100 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/260790/1001-spikesReviews 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.