Canabalt
Fair · Action · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.6h 9.3h to 100%
- Value
- $4.98/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 309 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.46 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Escape the destruction of your city with just one button! The game that popularized the infinite runner genre is back with two-player mode and new challenges.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 72 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 43 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BIT.TRIP RUNNER ($9.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).
More about Canabalt
Finishing takes 0.6 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 16 times the campaign.
The drop-off
50% start to 1% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 10:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Canabalt scores 58/100 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/358960/canabaltReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.