BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition
Fair · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.4h
- Value
- $1.35/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Graphics Card made within the last 5 years (Pixel Shader 2.0, Vertex Shader 2.0), 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in November 2019. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 97 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Trine 2: Complete Story ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Shank 2 ($9.99, scores 63).
3 of the 505 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,113 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.4 hours. Doing everything runs 17, 2.2 times as long.
At 7.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
32% 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
Players
6 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
game is great other than the random game crashes when i play throughout the levels
A really solid atmospheric platformer with some creative physics-based puzzles and chaotic co-op moments. The art style and sound design carry the experience hard, especially during the more intense obstacle sections. It can get frustrating at times, but the checkpoints are forgiving enough to keep things moving. Definitely one of those indie games that feels simple at first but gets surprisingly addictive.
Wonderful art style, creative design and intuitive controls. Almost the perfect balance in difficulty, whereas the game feels just difficult enough to feel challenging but not easy enough to feel mindless or something. The physics interaction is very well implemented and it makes a lot of the gimmicks feel just as organic as they should. I really like it!! Definitely recommend. If anything I feel like the game is...
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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BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition scores 64/100 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/269670/badland-game-of-the-year-editionThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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