Ultimate Chicken Horse
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $3.00/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB VRAM Intel HD 4000 / GeForce 200 Series / Radeon HD 4000 Series, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.24, set in May 2024. It has been discounted 75 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 7 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Super Bunny Man ($14.99, scores 61) and Rubber Bandits ($2.49, scores 62), are both worse buys on this math.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 22 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 3,558 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 27, 5.3 times as much.
At 5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
77% start to 2% 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
350 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A favorite of mine in the Horse-type genre. For anyone interested in the meta, the horse is REALLY broken. (Long face adds too much advantage for Horse mains)
I would absolutely recommend this game to anyone that either 1) Likes 2d platforming games 2) Likes playing games with and against your friends 3) Likes games with a high skill ceiling that can be competitive if they choose to be 4) Likes online games with really nice and welcoming communities or 5) Likes good games in general. I have bought this game on 3 different platforms and I would buy it another 3 times.
Noooo, don't place that black hole right in front of the starting point, this isn't you
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Ultimate Chicken Horse scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/386940/ultimate-chicken-horseThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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