Spoiler Alert
Skip · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 39, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $4.27/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Spoiler Alert is a video game that tests your platforming skills… in reverse. It’s a comedy platformer that you play backwards.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.50. That was April 2020. It has been discounted 94 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 38 percent on value. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Thank Goodness You're Here! ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Through Abandoned: The Underground City ($5.99, scores 36).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 244 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 71 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.7 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
37% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's a clever concept, but it doesn't really deliver. The levels wouldn't actually work going forwards, which undermines the design. There's a speedrun timer despite the character auto-running at fixed speed. Most frustratingly, the game will fail to recognize the jump input fairly frequently, which is a cardinal sin in a platformer.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Spoiler Alert scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/283230/spoiler-alertReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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