Dropsy
BANGER · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2015.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.22/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 2,165
- Critics
- 80 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.4h
- To 100%
- 7.1h 1.6x the story
- Achievements
- 30
Price and sales
- Sales
- 82 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 September 2021
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
48% start to 7% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was September 2021. Across all 82 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Machinarium ($19.99, scores 62) and Gods Will Be Watching ($9.99, scores 26).
The math says it holds its tier up to $4.04.
More about Dropsy
80 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 362 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 180 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
An excellent point-and-click adventure that subverted all my expectations. Visually, it's a delight that will appeal to any fan of classic 90s adventures like Sam & Max or Day of the Tentacle, with a vibrant and colorful cartoon style. The interesting thing is that the game's structure isn't entirely linear; instead, we have a mostly open world, and we'll have to help and hug everyone we come across. It's truly a...
2 more reviews
10/10 Trippy, sweet, scary, and cute. Wonderful art style and one of my favorite soundtracks.
the most intensely charmed I have been by a game in years and it's the grotesque clown. Story's pretty much nonexistent but great music and a stoner lesbian so it evens out it my book
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Dropsy is a non-traditional take on the classic point and click adventure formula starring the game’s perpetually carefree namesake clown as he explores a richly detailed world full of colorful characters and sinister secrets, doling out hugs along the way.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Dropsy scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/274350/dropsyReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.