GAUGE
Skip · Short indie · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 0.3h
- Value
- $13.30/hr
- Reviews
- 64% of 252 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3577 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Gauge is an experimental and minimalistic sport game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Compatible DirectX 9.0c, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
13 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 511 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. On the same math Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball ($1.99, scores 21) and Anarchy Arcade (free, scores 21) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about GAUGE
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
23% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
i love this game to death. twitchy as super hexagon, psychedelic as space giraffe, and with an extension system that will make you just ever so slightly better as you play more. you're going to keep coming back to test your old score. well worth the investment.
1 more review
The gameplay makes my arms a bit sad, but the audio visual experience this game provided was well worth it. Love this kind of stuff, cheers to the dev for going out on a limb and trying something weird and wild. It's not for everyone. Like if you're epileptic this game will probably kill you. But if you like really strange minimalistic stuff and don't mind flashing colours, try it out.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
GAUGE scores 10/100 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/272990/gaugeReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.