Potatoman Seeks the Troof

Potatoman Seeks the Troof

Skip · Short indie · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
0.7h 1.2h to 100%
Value
$5.70/hr
Reviews
74% of 862 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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

Holding it back
Value$5.70/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 80 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

Test both mind, body and spirit in this surreal bullet hell platformer. Plum the depths of your potato-consciousness to overcome impossible challenges in search of the elusive, tantalizing TROOF.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

119 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 47 percent of its genre. Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove ($31.99, scores 63) outscores it, and so does Pizza Tower ($19.99, scores 70). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Potatoman Seeks the Troof

Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 156 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 14:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

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

Cite this score

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Potatoman Seeks the Troof scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/328500/potatoman-seeks-the-troof
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperPixeljam
PublisherAkupara Games
GenreShort indie
Released2014
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements2