STARWHAL
Fair · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $10.90/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible graphics card with at least 256MB of video memory, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.
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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 $1.19. That was July 2025. It has been discounted 27 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 22 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. On the same math SpeedRunners ($2.99, scores 93) and Lethal League ($13.99, scores 75) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 255 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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STARWHAL scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/263020/starwhalThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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