Sketchy's Contract
Skip · Action · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $8.99.
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 1,339
- Genre rank
- Top 14% Action
Holding it back: Length unknown, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- To 100%
- 30h
- Finish
- 0% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 16 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $3.59 June 2024
- Sale every
- 52d last July 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 36% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
2% start to <1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 16 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 15 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lethal Company ($9.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Unplagued ($7.99, scores 0).
More about Sketchy's Contract
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 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 469 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 103 days ago.
- 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
- 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.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sketchy's Contract scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-contractReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.