Wires And Whiskers

Wires And Whiskers

Fair · Multiplayer · 2025

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

PriceS
Free to play
ReviewsS
95% of 1,847
Genre rank
Top 8% Multiplayer

Holding it back: AI content

Time and effort

Typical playtime
0.4h
To 100%
0.5h 1.3x the story

Players and genre

Online
3 now
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

Its score sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Zombie Panic! Source (free, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Mushy (free, scores 59).

Its player count is falling. 9 were online at the highest of our weekly checks over 35 days, 3 at the last one, on Nov 4, 19:49 UTC.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
AI contentDisclosed
The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score takes a heavy dock
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies

About the game

Wires and Whiskers is a local co-op action-puzzle game where two players control a lab-engineered gerbil and its magnetic exosuit. Work together to fight mutated enemies, solve magnetic puzzles, and survive in a ruined, post-apocalyptic trench world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 570, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Wires And Whiskers scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 1,847 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3874440/wires-and-whiskers
Embed the live badge

Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperYohann Blanchard
PublisherISART DIGITAL
GenreMultiplayer
Released2025