TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT
Skip · Action · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 5.3h 11.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.83/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 587 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 4 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
About the game
Shell City is plunged into a state of emergency after coming under attack from the devastating forces of PHANTOM. As the National Army struggle to contain the terrifying war machines, they call upon the only thing that stands between Shell City’s obliteration and its salvation; the peanut chompin’, villain stompin’, TEMBO THE BADASS...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics Card NVIDIA GTS 240 or higher (or equivalent), 993 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 73 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 45 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty ($19.99, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats Smilemo ($9.99, scores 24).
More about TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT
Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
5.3 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
91% start to 3% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 19:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Super cool to play a game made by Gamefreak that isn't Pokemon, and it's good? HOWEVER, WHAT THE HELL IS THE DEAL WITH NO CLOUD SAVES!? I started on my GPD Win Mini and then tried moving to my Steam Deck and had to start over from scratch. That sucks! Enable cloud saves! Why would you not have them? Fun and interesting playstyle. It's fun to play as an elephant in a game with so much high action. Very unique and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I feel bad for not playing this game more. It's honestly a really fun game, and while I don't feel drawing to play this game, whenever I do give this game a go, it has me smiling like a clown. The gameplay is fast paced and satisfying, the puzzles aren't too cryptic, and for pete's sake! It stars a fricken elephant! That, alone, is an automatic thumbs up from me. Even then, I do think it's a pretty underrated game...
Overall it is not bad but plays like so many others I have played in the past it really doesn't stick out. Overall gameplay loop is fun for a bit but bugs got frustrating. Good for a playthrough maybe 2 but honestly wouldn't ever play it again after that. Also not a huge fan of the final boss as there are is an odd bug when attempting to hit him for the last few hits.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT 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/341870/tembo-the-badass-elephantReviews 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.