Turbo Pug
Worth it · Short indie · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 1.2h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 Mb, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.
It's time to unleash your inner pug! Turbo Pug is a casual runner with difficult, random, procedurally generated levels. Enjoy random weather and try to avoid getting zapped by lightning. Unlock new costumes for your pug and new characters to play as. Please try not to squish your pug!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. It has been discounted 77 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $0.99 at 50 percent off still sits 102 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, WAVESHAPER ($1.51, scores 65) and Please, Don’t Touch Anything ($4.99, scores 61), are both worse buys on this math.
2 of the 267 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 1,462 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 65 percent of everything written about it.
Players
2 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Turbo Pug scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/418070/turbo-pugThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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