Pit People®
BANGER · RPG · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.6h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 512 MB video card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
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.
The value story
February 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Its cuts run 56 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Castle Crashers® ($14.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Chroma Squad ($14.99, scores 81).
The math says it holds its tier up to $50.27, and you are being asked for $19.99.
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 15 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 9.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 514 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 510 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.6 hours. Doing everything runs 226, 24 times as long.
The drop-off
86% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 9.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
Cite this score
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Pit People® scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/291860/pit-peopleThe 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 2, price as of Sep 24.
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