Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face

Fair · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.4h
Value
$4.98/hr
Reviews
86% positive
It needs 56% off ($0.87) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.98
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$1.99
as of Sep 30
Reviews
86%
3,100 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 650 Ti, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

Mr. Red Face, a fictional character created by adults to teach their children, suddenly becomes real..
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$4.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Refunds31 of 709 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

October 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. In 2 years of price history it has never once been discounted.

Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Inn-Sanity ($7.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Anemoiapolis: Chapter 1 ($8.99, scores 48).

Of the 709 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 31 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 31 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 2,801 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 96 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

While the game was good initially, with an interesting storyline, graphics and dark tone, I absolutely CANNOT give any support to this game due to its creator being a PDF. Save yourself time and money (if you see this now) and skip buying this game altogether. Don't support creators who think that type of vile behavior is acceptable.
The RandomizerNot recommendedafter 1.5h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3205080/bad-parenting-1-mr-red-face
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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 26, price as of Sep 30.

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Details

Developer2OO2
Publisher2OO2
GenreNarrative
Released2024