8BitBoy™
Skip · Action · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $0.90.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.20/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 1,942
- Genre rank
- Top 29% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Score at full price
Score today
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.4h
- To 100%
- 11.7h 2.7x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 118 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.39 October 2015
- Sale every
- 32d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 43% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 52% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.39, set in October 2015. 118 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 29 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Endorlight ($0.99, scores 6).
More about 8BitBoy™
Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 397 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4.4 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 2.7 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I must first preface that most aspects of this game are well done, I enjoy the look and style, the music is very good and my favorite aspect of the game, and there are good amount of hidden things to find and explore in levels, but unfortunately, my main issue lies in the slippery controls of the main character and that I find myself getting easily frustrated with the game and level design (particularly from World 3...
1 more review, not recommended
The game actually controls fairly well and is fun to play in that sense, but the whole thing is brought down by unhinged game design. We're all familiar with limited lives in old platformers. You run out of lives and you start again, usually on the same level or at the beginning of the World that you're on. 8BitBoy throws that all out the window. The game auto saves at the end of each level, and it's more of a save...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Huge classic platformer with several power-ups and 8-12 hours of main story & 300+ hidden locations just begging for exploration · 56 big Levels · 5 huge worlds
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 / Radeon HD 6310, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
8BitBoy™ scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/296910/8bitboyReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.