Old School Musical
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $4.19/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 90% ($1.29)
- Last discount ended
- 21 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 614 MB of storage. Windows only.
What has 50 amazing chiptune tracks, a loony story mode, 32 different chicken types to fight, and takes you on a tour of all your favorite retro games? It's Old School Musical! Tib and Rob are the heroes of a wacky adventure that will teach them where all of the bugs in our favorite games come from.
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
The lowest price on record is $1.29, set in March 2025. It has been discounted 73 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crypt of the NecroDancer ($14.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP RUNNER ($9.99, scores 50).
None of the 330 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The main story runs 3.1 hours. Doing everything runs 25, 8.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
40% 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
What players say
great game , but without a good reflex , you won't enjoy it much , great game tho !!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Old School Musical scores 66/100 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/398030/old-school-musicalReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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