Putt-Putt® Joins the Parade
Skip · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a worth-it price before.
Today
$6.99Skip
On its price record
$2.30Worth it
- Length
- 0.5h 0.7h to 100%
- Value
- $13.98/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 347 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.30 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
What does it take to be in a parade? Hard work, a bright shiny chassis and a little help from your friends.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 100% DirectX compatible graphics, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 74 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside ($6.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem ($21.99, scores 3).
More about Putt-Putt® Joins the Parade
Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 78 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 12 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I bought this for my daughter (for her 5th birthday) because I remember playing it as a child. I believe it was the first game I played independently. It's still great as a first game. Reading is not required. It uses a yes or no shaking head or images for when you need to answer a question. I think it's good for learning to use a mouse since they can focus on the mouse and there's no keyboard usage. My daughter was...
1 more review
One of the very first PC games I ever played and now my kids absolutely love it too. Glad to see it available on steam. This is a game for children. If you're buying this to relive nostalgia, just watch a long play on youtube instead.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Putt-Putt® Joins the Parade scores 49/100 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/283920/putt-putt-joins-the-paradeReviews 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.