Action Henk

Action Henk

Worth it · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
4.1h 30.9h to 100%
Value
$3.66/hr
Reviews
89% of 867 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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 6 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
Replayability~25h to replay
Steam Workshop mods and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 4.1h main story
Holding it back
Value$3.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 66 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

Run, jump and butt-slide into the glorious toy-filled world of Action Henk! Become a master of momentum and defy physics as you race against a band of ragged 90s action figures to once and for all prove that Action Henk is the fastest of them all!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GT 430/equivalent or higher, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

51 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SpeedRunners ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Distance ($24.99, scores 69).

More about Action Henk

Critics scored it 74. Players sit 15 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

4.1 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.5 times the campaign.

The drop-off

58% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

I like momentum. I like charm. I like platforming. I like spectacle. Ergo, I very much like this game.
ScungeonRecommendedafter 24hJun 2025Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Way of the Ninja is a level made by the IDF to turn you into a weaker man and to pump Henk full of Estrogen because I was only able to rainbow medal it after using the Swan Henk skin
ToastscholarNot recommendedafter 60hJun 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Action Henk scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/285820/action-henk
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+15
Critics74
Players89
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 867 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRageSquid
PublisherRageSquid
GenreAction
Released2015
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21