The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

Fair · Narrative · 2010

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.5h 8.9h to 100%
Value
$1.43/hr
Reviews
88% of 465 positive
It needs 3% off ($4.83) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.83 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Value$1.43/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 69 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Enter a macabre and comical silent world filled with mischief, time travel and delicious pie. Includes Steam Achievements, Cloud, and Leaderboards!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 67 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, BLACKHOLE ($8.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Life Goes On: Done to Death ($12.99, scores 62).

More about The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom

79 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.

3.5 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.

The drop-off

85% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Cite this score

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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40930/the-misadventures-of-p-b-winterbottom
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Reviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics79
Players88
Metacritic critics · 465 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThe Odd Gentlemen
Publisher2K
GenreNarrative
Released2010
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12