Pierhead Arcade
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h 9.3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 277 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each 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
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About the game
Play in your own virtual arcade with unlimited tokens.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GTX 970, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
54 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Golf It! ($8.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Anarchy Arcade (free, scores 21).
More about Pierhead Arcade
Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 155 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 58 percent of everything written about it.
2.7 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
70% start to <1% 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
What players say
Easily one of the best games out there for introducing people to VR. Tons of content, huge number of games. It may not necessarily be a game you can spend hours at a time in (though it might be, depending on how much you like arcades), but there's always something to come back to for a quick play. 10/10, would spend 15 minutes yelling at a claw machine again.
2 more reviews
I am totally beguiled by VR, I've dreamed of having my own arcade for about thirty years, I've accumulated four machines in the garage waiting for me to build a space. Then, I get a vive, and now My dreams have come true. Perfectly modelled machines which play exactly how they should do, but with amazing score tables including local and worldwide charts, far better than you'd ever see in a real arcade. And how much...
Awesome game, great value for your money but consider getting the sequel too because they improved the physics and controls a lot and there's a special room featuring the old games which is available immediately (i.e. doesn't have to be unlocked) for owners of the previous game. That said, I had a grand time playing this and I bet you will too. I love the way it rains tickets down on you like you're in a money...
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Cite this score
Pierhead Arcade scores 59/100 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/435490/pierhead-arcadeReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.