Super Meat Boy
Worth it · Short indie · 2010
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.63/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 39,466
- Critics
- 87 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.2h
- To 100%
- 45.9h 5.0x the story
- Finish
- 7% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 December 2014
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 135 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 87 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $10.33 BANGER line 86 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Downwell ($2.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Celeste ($19.99, scores 76).
More about Super Meat Boy
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2024 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 691 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 104 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 6,998 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.2 hours; clearing it takes 46, which is 5.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 9.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 4 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
An extremely unforgiving precision platformer that feels like it was designed specifically to stress-test your patience and tolerance for repetition. My obsessive nature with games that rely heavily on muscle memory made me incredibly determined to finish this. You will inevitably replay the same sections over and over, slowly memorizing the sequencing, learning when to react, and figuring out exactly how to move...
2 more reviews
I got a problem and I'm not even close to 1% of the people who are good at this game.
you will need antidepressants and probably money set aside for a bunch of new controllers as they will very much likely not last long in your hands
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Graphics Card made within the last 4 years (Pixel Shader 3.0, Vertex Shader 3.0), 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Super Meat Boy scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40800/super-meat-boyReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.