On Rusty Trails

On Rusty Trails

Skip · Short indie · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a worth-it price before.

Today

$14.99Skip

On its price record

$3.17Worth it

Length
3.1h 9.6h to 100%
Value
$4.84/hr
Reviews
87% of 267 positive
It needs 79% off ($3.17) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.17 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Raising the score
Engagement7% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 60 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Conformity is everything in this lightning-fast platformer - get ready to shift your friendships each and every second!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 99 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thomas Was Alone ($9.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats One Gun Guy ($0.79, scores 23).

More about On Rusty Trails

Critics scored it 77. Players sit 10 points higher at 87 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

3.1 hours to finish it, 10 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

38% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

On Rusty Trails is a very "Black Pants Studio feeling" game. The experience, both visuals and sound are really pretty and very enjoyable. It is arguably the best part of the game. Which isn't to say the gameplay is bad. The platforming is very fun and has enough mechanics to stay intersting throughout. Similarly to their mobile game "Blown Away" (which sadly you can not even buy the full game of anymore) it is a lot...
yournextdoorimpostorRecommendedafter 1.7hApr 2024Read on Steam
1 more review
Another great game from "Black Pants Studio", though a different genre, they still managed to ace it to top quality. Great puzzles, nice and challenging platformer and as usual, wacky story to place everything in place. Great job!
MeowishRecommendedafter 5.6hJun 2022Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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On Rusty Trails scores 47/100 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/277700/on-rusty-trails
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Reviews 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.

Critics vs players+10
Critics77
Players87
Metacritic critics · 267 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBlack Pants Studio
PublisherBlack Pants Studio
GenreShort indie
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements44