Roogoo
Fair · Short indie · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.4h 3.4h to 100%
- Value
- $1.66/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 336 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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.
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About the game
Roogoo is an innovative and unusual 3D puzzle game that has players guide and stack different shaped blocks through various platforms to not only save planet Roo, but the entire Roogoo race. Roogoo tasks players with guiding meteors in the form of shaped blocks through a series of rotating disks as a means of saving planet Roo and the...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Nvidia 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ with 256MB / Direct X 9.0c / Shader 2.0 support, 256 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 92 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Intergalactic Bubbles ($1.99, scores 54) beats it on value, while it beats Antenna (free, scores 44).
More about Roogoo
Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 192 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 82 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Have you ever wanted to know what it feels like to do the job that an automatic coin sorting machine does? Do you hate coins and prefer Lucky Charms' marshmallows instead? Do you also like insipid stories about teddy bears that turn evil when exposed to Lucky Charms? Then boy, do I have a game for you! That introduction sounds negative, but seriously, Roogoo is fast paced and colorful with an appropriate art style...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game has a premise I honestly would love more of: Childhood toys and games, in this case the simple shape-matching toys of less worry-burdened days, reinterpreted into a challenging game. I wouldn't put this forward as a major competitive tournament material, but I think it's surprisingly engaging here, and catching pieces successfully feels like a real accomplishment. It may be based on a baby toy, and star a...
Roogoo is an ancient console ported game from 2008. It's a whopping 16 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Roogoo scores 51/100 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/38210/roogooReviews 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.