Putt-Putt® Travels Through Time

Putt-Putt® Travels Through Time

Fair · Narrative · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.2h 1.3h to 100%
Value
$5.83/hr
Reviews
95% of 367 positive
It needs 15% off ($5.95) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.95 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

Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$5.83/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 164 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

Mr. Firebird's time machine has gone haywire and Putt-Putt's® best pal Pep, is lost somewhere in time.
Description from the Steam store page.
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

74 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 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® Travels Through Time

Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.

Players

Players online
11 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 02:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I used to play this as a kid on CD rom, so when I found out it was on Steam, I got really excited! It is so much fun, even now.
etheriousnatsudragneel157Recommendedafter 4.2hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I feel like it's a shame that didn't have a chance to have/play this game from my childhood. Because MY GOD, THIS IS THE BEST PUTT-PUTT GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED! The music's great, the objectives are different from each playthough (which makes the game replayable), neat story, everything. This game is fantastic!
ShinyRaichu94Recommendedafter 2.0h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I recently learned that all my childhood Humongous Entertainment faves (Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, Pajama Sam) were on Steam, so when I got my new gaming laptop, I decided to christen it with a playthrough of this classic. Great fun, with nice educational touches like a minigame where you practice addition and the fact that Putt-Putt reads aloud any text you click. Also, half the environment is clickable, activating little...
CossackGeneRecommendedafter 1.5hJan 2026Read on Steam

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

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Putt-Putt® Travels Through Time scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/294670/putt-putt-travels-through-time
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHumongous Entertainment
PublisherHumongous Entertainment
GenreNarrative
Released2014
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate