Ballionaire
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.34. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($6.17)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($4.93)
- Last discount ended
- 31 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.
BALLIONAIRE is a fast-paced, kinetic roguelike where strategy meets physics to create outrageous wealth! Find and exploit game-breaking synergies as you theorycraft your way to victory. Welcome to the autobonker genre!
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
It has never been cheaper than $4.93. That was May 2026. Its cuts run 45 percent off as a rule. There have been 17 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 37 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Peglin ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers ($14.99, scores 55).
This site sampled 653 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 31 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 61 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 427 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 16, 2.7 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
63% 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
119 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 14:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is one of those games where you make a decision, then sit back and watch the outcome. Unlike a tower defense, the goal is to maximize the number of things moving around the field, not minimize them. Lots of strategies to follow. Fun animations and art style. Absurd and outlandish in the best ways. It also has that marvelous aspect of being better each time you go through via the unlocks. Good stuff.
i was about to give a negative rating to this game after 30 min. gave it a second chance, got the hang of it. perfect with my coffee and breakfast in the morning to past time.
Kinda lost me after a bit, its fine. But the flow feels very meh. you place pegs to try to do a combo but unlike something that actually stuck with me like Nubby's Number Factory, this feels very detached to any sort of gameplan you will set out to do. Once you find "the combo" then yeah thats it. Unlocking feels way too slow as well
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ballionaire scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2667120/ballionaireReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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