DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 18h 37.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.56/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 201 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
DROD is a unique puzzle-logic game with clever mechanics and an engaging story. It is a turn-based top-down 2-D dungeon puzzler. The game play has amazing depth through emergent behaviors as puzzle elements are combined. There is a simple interface and only a handful of commands to master.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 64 MB, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
34 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Monster Sanctuary ($19.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats DemonCrawl ($14.99, scores 43).
More about DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 18-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
Finishing takes 18 hours; clearing it takes 38, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
44% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This gem is so well-hidden that you can already consider yourself part of the elite for just reading these words, because this game has legendary status in some very specific circles. Don't waste your chance to familiarize yourself with one of the best puzzle game series ever designed, if you were so lucky to stumble upon it.
2 more reviews
It could be better as an introduction to the series if it didn't throw so much lore at you. Still a good puzzle game, it got me hooked on DROD series. The series as a whole is probably the best puzzle game I've played, it has a lot of content and variety. Sometimes it can be a hit or miss and the presentation of the game might be weird for some people but it grew on me.
If you have somehow stumbled upon this game, do yourself a favor and buy it. THE best puzzle series I have ever played along with a welcoming and very helpful community. The story is silly, the writing is funny (mostly the later games), and the puzzles hit the perfect line of frustrating yet gratifying to solve. This game includes the first 3 games in the series as DLC, so no need to go anywhere else until you want...
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Cite this score
DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/314330/drod-gunthro-and-the-epic-blunderReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.