Platypus
Worth it · Action · 2014
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.6h 5.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 580 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
The vast continent-spanning city of Collosatropolis has finally reached the limits of its expansion. Tall buildings cover every available space. The air is thick with smoke and poisonous chemicals. Parking is a nightmare
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 32MB 3D Video Card. Windows only.
The value story
64 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. It scores the same as Marble It Up! Ultra, which costs $29.99. This one is $4.99.
More about Platypus
Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 215 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.6 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 3.4 times as long.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 20:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
best shmup up out there because it's actually playable and beatable by people who don't play shmups 12 hours a day. still runs fine on w10 and modern hardware but you can totally feel the mouse control is slightly floaty, i mention this because while the keyboard controls are good they are slower and obviously less precise. not sure if that's fixed in the reclayed version that just came out.
2 more reviews
Taking a bite out of one of these clay models would fix me (Get a wrapper for it. dgvoodoo worked well for me)
Took me over 20 years but I finally beat this game... (played it when I was a kid and then found it on steam a grown ass man) worth it.
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
Platypus scores 71/100 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/307340/platypusReviews 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.