Sam & Max Hit the Road
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.21.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $1.15/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.09. That was December 2018. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 8 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.21. The record reaches that level 32 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Book of Unwritten Tales ($4.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition ($9.99, scores 81).
This site sampled 339 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 194 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 16:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
satirical anthropomorphic dogs and unhinged preternatural lagomorphs where common everyday sights in the 90s, this duo formed A pi firm with 0 questions, 0 agender, 0 clear footing in reality 0fg and the twitchy severed hand of jessie james (though this is more of an interactive souvenier that shoots at you) there brand of stylised justice is not just the gleaming snaggle toothed maw of irrational knee jerked excuse...
I just played this again for the first time in 25 years. It is a good game, like many of the LucasArts games. I like how accomplishing certain things makes new areas appear on the map. However, there are some areas that are to the side of the screen that you would never know were there like in the vortex magnet area. There are also several areas that have a lot of clutter like the sasquatch or the pool ladder. Its...
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Cite this score
Sam & Max Hit the Road scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/355170/sam-max-hit-the-roadReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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