The Adventure Pals
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.6h
- Value
- $1.74/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD5450 or better; 256 MB or higher, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fueled by imagination, friendship, and the dark side of hot dogs. Your dad has been dadnapped and you, your pet rock, and a tongue-helicoptering giraffe must fight your way through levels filled with platforming, bizarre enemies, and big bosses to save the world!
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 $1.49. That was August 2022. It has been discounted 53 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince ($29.99, scores 58).
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 12 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 352 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
73% start to 12% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 08:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Steam's rating system really can't account for how sometimes a game gives you conflicting thoughts on it. I want to give this game a mixed review, but I guess I have to settle for negative. This game is visually very charming, although you can't see it super well because it is far too zoomed out. A lot of the combat is very tedious, press one button over and over again and then sometimes press another one. The...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Adventure Pals scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/396710/the-adventure-palsReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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