Sketchy's Contract
Skip · Action · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $8.99.
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB, 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
June 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.59. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 16 in the 2 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 10 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Lethal Company ($9.99, scores 91) and Nuclear Nightmare ($6.99, scores 52) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts under 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. 15 of the 471 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 680 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
1% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. Steam global achievements
Players
21 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Sketchy's Contract scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2823080/sketchy-s-contractThe 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 Aug 5, price as of Sep 23.
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