Pocket Rumble
Skip · Action · 2016 · Early Access
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 29, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $7.68/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 206 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2659 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Pocket Rumble is a streamlined, beginner-friendly 2-button fighting game that retains all the gameplay elements that make traditional 2D fighters great, but reduces the level of execution and memorization necessary to the bare minimum.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2nd Generation Intel Core HD Graphics (2000/3000), 256MB, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 4 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 22 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 380 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 60 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Fraymakers ($19.99, scores 44) and Shaolin vs Wutang ($9.99, scores 56) both outscore it.
What players say
It's a very good early access game, but it essentially has been abandoned for years. Don't get this expecting a finished game.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game was supposed to be a retro fighter in the same vein as games from the Neo-Geo Pocket (Color). The game had so much potential, but was abandoned by the developer(s). Steam even has a note now saying that the last update was 5 years ago. It's not worth buying.
It's never going to be out of early access because the developers had the game stolen by the publisher and are straight up barred from developing for it. If you want to be mad at anyone for such a good game to be abandoned, point that at the publishers and not the devs who had their dream project snatched away. As it is it's a really fun fighting game to bust out locally every now and again - for 10 bucks it's worth...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Pocket Rumble scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/389050/pocket-rumbleReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.