Party Hard

Party Hard

Worth it · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it 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

$9.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$1.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$1.61/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 12,734
Critics
64 players 26 higher
Genre rank
Top 2% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
6.2h
To 100%
14.1h 2.3x the story
Finish
26% reach the ending
Achievements
27

Price and sales

Sales
98 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$1.99 July 2023
Sale every
38d last October 2026
Lowest now $0.99 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
31 now
Recent reviews
92% 30 days
Cheaper than
24% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

85% start to 26% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 98 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEADBOLT ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Party Hard 2 ($19.99, scores 38).

More about Party Hard

The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 26-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 672 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 990 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

6.2 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement26% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.61/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds5 of 672 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

What players say

100% Completion - All Achievements Rating: 6.5/10 - Party Is Not That Hard! Party Hard is kinda fun, but also a little repetitive. The main idea is simple: murder everyone. Classic indie game logic! From every angle, this game is screaming "I AM INDIE!" - and that is not necessarily a bad thing. The core idea is solid, the pixel art has its own charm, and the gameplay can be genuinely satisfying. The game is...
HellerRecommendedafter 24h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
simple concept, addictive gameplay and the pixel art + chaos are perfect. one of those games I didnt expect to enjoy this much
palmbeachedRecommendedafter 3.3hSep 2026Read on Steam
This game is kinda mid as hell lmao. Like it can be fun at times, but it's held back by a lot of things. If its on sale though you should buy it, but my problems with it are - The movement and attacking in this game feel clunky, which can make it hard to run from cops and kill people at times - The story is bad. It's an overdone cliche that you can see coming from a mile away. - The voice acting is... not great. You...
The GremlinNot recommendedafter 5.2h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated with 128mb of vram, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Party Hard scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/356570/party-hard
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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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+26
Critics64
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 12,734 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperPinokl Games
PublishertinyBuild
GenreAction
Released2015
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements27