Ben and Ed
Fair · Action · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10 compatible graphics card, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Ben and Ed is a 3D platformer, in which the player controls Ed the Zombie, who is forced to participate in a grotesque game show called "Rundead". Will he beat all obstacles Hans Showmaster confronts him with, to save his best friend Ben?
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2025. 52 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ben and Ed - Blood Party ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Mr.President! ($9.99, scores 54).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 965 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
5 hours to finish it, 14 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
92% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I have almost 100% this game and wow, ive finally had the chance to play this game after so many years and man did it not dissapoint, apart from some bugs here and there, the game is really fun but EXTREMELY infuriating at times, please give this game a shot its really good
The game is really fun, but some of the levels can feel inconsistent, especially when it comes to the moving platforms. Sometimes they move too early, stop for several seconds, or suddenly become faster or slower than expected. Because of this, you can occasionally die because of the game itself rather than because you made a mistake. It doesn't happen all the time, but it can definitely be frustrating. Other than...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ben and Ed scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/395200/ben-and-edReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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