Koala Kids

Koala Kids

Worth it · Short indie · 2015

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $0.69.

Length
2.4h 8h to 100%
Value
$0.29/hr
Reviews
91% of 276 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

It is 65% off today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.29/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $0.83/hr
Engagement3% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 123 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

About the game

Koala Kids is a puzzle-platformer game, in the style of retro games like Lode Runner. Includes Hot-seat Coop and Level Editor.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Windows only.

The value story

Across all 99 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 72 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.69 at 65 percent off still sits 41 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moonleap ($8.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats One Gun Guy ($0.79, scores 23).

More about Koala Kids

Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

Finishing takes 2.4 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 3.3 times the campaign.

The drop-off

9% start to 3% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.4hJan 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Koala Kids scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/381870/koala-kids
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDoomster Entertainment
PublisherDoomster Entertainment
GenreShort indie
Released2015
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements17