Gremlins, Inc.
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $12.49/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Iris 4800, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
This is an intense strategy board game in a steampunk world of corrupt capitalist gremlins who compete for money, political power and prestige. Save and invest, steal and extort, arrest and get arrested – in single-player and multiplayer, with ranks and ladders, team mode and spectator mode.
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
It has never been cheaper than $3.74. That was October 2018. 97 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Through the Ages ($15.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Stormbound (free, scores 25).
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 85 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 764 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 374 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
1.6 hours to finish it, 28 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 17 times the campaign.
At 1.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
60% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 1.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
Hello developers, My friends and I really enjoy Gremlins, Inc. We usually play as a group of three people, and we would like to play 2v2 team games by adding one AI player. However, the current AI is too weak, so the team with the AI player is usually at a significant disadvantage. This makes 2v2 games with three human players feel unbalanced. Could you please consider one of the following options? 1. Add a Hard or...
This game is amazing, seriously. I've played it casually on and off with a friend for a few years. Saw the recent reviews were mixed and thought that was a travesty. PvP, PvE, PvPvE, this game has it all and it's all fun imo, one of the greatest steam board games out there with fun mechanics that are easy to understand but have alot of fun potential for clever plays. You won't regret it if you're a fan of board...
Servers are trash and the developers are more busy writing cheeky/memey replies in the forum than working to fix them
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Gremlins, Inc. scores 56/100 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/369990/gremlins-incReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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