Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256MB DirectX 9 or higher, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in December 2024. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 67 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Jackbox Party Pack 2 ($24.99, scores 82) and Drawful 2 ($9.99, scores 40).
71 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
20 of the 586 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 3,509 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 14, 2.7 times as much.
At 5.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
88% start to 1% rarestNo 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
Players
148 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Awesome co-op experience that I look forward to playing more of. You could even play this online with someone who doesn't own the game by sending them the manual and talking over call.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/341800/keep-talking-and-nobody-explodesThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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