Paddle Paddle Paddle
Fair · Short indie · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Paddle through pain. Solo or co-op. One paddle each. Lava everywhere. You’ll fall. You’ll scream. You might cry. Good luck and embrace the salt.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in July 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 11 in the 14 months tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Driftwood ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats FPV SkyDive : FPV Drone Simulator (free, scores 60).
22 of the 515 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 727 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 14 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 22 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 567 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.5 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
73% start to 8% 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
23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 15:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paddle Paddle Paddle scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3570070/paddle-paddle-paddleReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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