Thumper
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.56/hr
- ReviewsS
- 92% of 4,429
- Critics
- 86 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.8h
- To 100%
- 18.2h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 19
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 December 2020
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 78 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $6.16 BANGER line 42 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Super Hexagon ($2.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Synth Riders ($24.99, scores 54).
More about Thumper
This site sampled 462 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,101 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.8 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
At 7.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Thumper is sublime. It stands as one of the greatest video games of all time and is a work of art. Please play this game. The flow state is utterly amazing and the ambient opening just hit like the first plunge of heroin.
1 more review
Criminally underrated game. When you lock in and get past midway through the game, you feel like you are marching down a battlefield, banging your chest. Best "rhythm" game ever made. But, feels more than that. Huge bonus points for the VR. Doesn't really change the game (and honestly, that is a good thing) but just makes it more immersive. Basically like strapping your monitor to your face but playing this in VR...
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About the game
Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GTX 480 / AMD Radeon 7870, 1.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Thumper scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/356400/thumperReviews 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 Oct 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.