Pony Island
Worth it · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.
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
December 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.74. 51 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, IMSCARED ($3.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Kindergarten 2 ($14.99, scores 73).
The press gave it 86; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
1 of the 732 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,723 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
90% start to 8% 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
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Recommended this game to my 8 year old niece, because it's about Ponies. Her mother doesn't speak to me anymore... : (
General Experience I'm overall pretty happy with Pony Island; The game itself offers creative puzzles that want you to think outside the box while being disguised as a simple side-scroller. The story is expressed through creative world building, both within the game and outside of it. I also found the puzzles to be pretty engaging, most of them take the form of a logic loop that you can navigate, but then they get...
Played this game because I love Inscryption and Pony Island 2 got announced. Got it in a bundle with every Daniel Mullins Game. It´s a really good game for under 3 hours.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Pony Island scores 84/100 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/405640/pony-islandReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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