Grow Up
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 460GTv2 or AMD Radeon HD5770(1024MB VRAM), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Leaping from mind-boggling heights, bouncing off Champolines, soaring inches from floating islands, BUD can do it all - that look of mild terror, that’s his daredevil face. Help the adorable little robot collect MOM’s scattered ship parts and return them to the moon.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was August 2026. It has been discounted 75 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Smushi Come Home ($7.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Yooka-Laylee ($19.99, scores 40).
Critics scored it 71. Players sit 21 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 239 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 9, 2.3 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
46% start to 9% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 07:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
10/10 + HEAVILY UNDERRATED ONLINE !! Grow up is a game I've been playing since I was- Idk 8 years old? It was something my little mind full of thoughts and feelings could just fade away as I explored a planet for ship parts, wondered how to find plants, and was flying for maybe hours. And now years later I came back to this game because this was one of my favorite games that lets me sit for at least an hour or two...
Torn whether I liked this game more than Home. The abilities are a really nice touch (except the ball) and a small planet being the map instead of one big starplant is interesting. I like the map locators, as in you can note crystals from POD, so much better than in the first game. I don't have much to comment, this is a good exploration game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Grow Up scores 68/100 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/426790/grow-upReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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