Rodland of Pipes

Rodland of Pipes

Worth it · Action · 2024

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $8.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.47.

Length
2.8h 9h to 100%
Value
$3.21/hr
Reviews
99% of 290 positive
It needs 28% off ($6.47) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.47 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 9 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
Reviews99% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$3.21/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
Refunds5 of 260 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

Crawl through pipes, navigate the maze, listen carefully and get out before Rodland finds you.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB, 512 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 12 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 11 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.47, a level the record has reached 13 times.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, IMSCARED ($3.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats My Friend is a Raven (free, scores 74).

More about Rodland of Pipes

5 of the 260 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 101 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.

2.8 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.

The drop-off

50% start to 1% 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

Absolutely love this game so damn much; the character design, sound design, everything. Especially love Rodland's "The Pipes Will Always Win," if you know, you know. While most people end up watching playthroughs of the game instead of buying it, I did both. I couldn't pass up this game. I have to mention another thing: the jumpscares. They're unbelievably well done, the hand-animated jumpscares are top-tier in my...
DeutscheAlephRecommendedafter 3.9hJul 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
I may not have much time in this game but I can easily say that it was, by far, the most unique and innovative horror experience I've ever had in my whole life. Definitely worth it.
AlephRecommendedafter 1.1hMay 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Rodland of Pipes scores 79/100 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/3125120/rodland-of-pipes
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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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperJustin Jones
PublisherJustin Jones
GenreAction
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21