Chiptune Champion
Skip · Short indie · 2016
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$14.99Skip
On its price record
$5.92Fair
- Length
- 2h 7h to 100%
- Value
- $7.50/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 201 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.92 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 785 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
Transform your keyboard into an instrument and play along to the melody of catchy chiptunes in this challenging rhythm game. Now with tap mode!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
24 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 112 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BARRIER X ($0.89, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians ($9.99, scores 37).
More about Chiptune Champion
The main story runs 2 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 3.5 times as long.
The drop-off
42% 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
What players say
Very fun game with built in workshop and level editor support :thumbs: - I swapped the default note keys out from 1 2 3 4 5 to Z X C V B. Oh and also awesome music :D
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I always wanted a Guitar Hero game on PC, but we got something even better. The level editor and workshop support is great. I play with a 360 Guitar Hero controller using Xpadder and it works flawlessly. If you like Guitar Hero, get this game. Even better if you have a Guitar Hero controller.
It's alright. There's some good chiptune music on it. I feel like 14.99 is too much for what a repetitive game it is - this feels like a mobile game. Maybe a mobile version of this game would be better. Like if it was 7.99 at the app store or something like that - it'd be really reasonable for a phone or tablet, actually. There only seems to be a mild to moderate correlation between the hitting the keys right and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Chiptune Champion scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/372690/chiptune-championReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.