White Knuckle
Worth it · Roguelike · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.59.
- Length
- 10.8h
- Value
- $1.26/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 20% off today.
Discounted in 4 of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GTX 670 or Equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
White Knuckle is a first-person roguelite speed-climbing game. Ascend through the guts of SUB-STRUCTURE 17 using precision movement mechanics. Sharp reflexes and resource management will bring you out from under ten thousand meters of concrete and decay.
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
The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $10.91. 8 discounts in the 18 months on record. They run about 16 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today's $13.59 at 20 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hot Lava ($19.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Gorilla Tag ($19.99, scores 73).
5 of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 687 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 58, 5.4 times as much.
The drop-off
86% start to 46% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
705 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
in this game you play as a lowly tapeworm stuck in Cave Johnson's toilet network at Aperture Science Laboratory
Lots of content to appreciate, even in its current early access state. Due to its complex hand-eye coordination requirement I'm going to apply a warning for those with disabilities: this game requires a lot of endurance. Fairly difficult game with the usual accessibility modifiers of its like you see in games like these nowadays. Tech is elaborated on or hinted via tips with room for experimentation, but isn't...
ok after skill issue has been solved game is 10/10 peak amazing cant wait for core to drop and also roach mode is dope make more bindings that fundamentally change the gameplay like roach mode, although abyss is still cheeks
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
White Knuckle scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3195790/white-knuckleReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 2.
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