Tasty Blue

Tasty Blue

Fair · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.5h 10.9h to 100%
Value
$2.28/hr
Reviews
89% of 743 positive
It needs 6% off ($7.48) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.48 or less.

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

Raising the score
Engagement4% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 347 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

Tasty Blue is an underwater side-scrolling eat 'em up game. You start as a small goldfish with an insatiable appetite. After being overfed by your owner, you'll escape into the ocean and eat everything that you encounter. The more you eat, the bigger you get!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 46 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats No Time To Explain Remastered ($14.99, scores 43).

More about Tasty Blue

Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 347 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 3.5 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 3.1 times as long.

The drop-off

73% start to 4% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
4 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 07:53 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

childhood game i used to play the demo with my sibling i loved this game so much
blenderRecommendedafter 3.6hFeb 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Tasty Blue scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/345200/tasty-blue
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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

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDingo Games
PublisherDingo Games
GenreAction
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements21