GoNNER

GoNNER

Fair · Roguelike · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
7.5h
Value
$1.33/hr
Reviews
81% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
7.5h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.33
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
81%
1,347 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
81
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

GoNNER is a tough as hell procedurally-generated 2D platformer with roguelike elements, following the largely misunderstood and altruistic Ikk on a journey to cheer up his only friend in this world - a giant landbound whale named Sally - by searching for just the right trinket in the deep and dark places nearby.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.33/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length7.5 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 369 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in October 2020. It has been discounted 80 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 50 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. ScourgeBringer ($16.99, scores 65) and Downwell ($2.99, scores 88) both outscore it.

1 of the 369 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 389 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

74% 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

Players

2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 16:51 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Be warned, the Blueberry update for this game effectively ruins the flow of gameplay. Still a great game but I don't know if I'll ever go back to it after the changes they made
gbaker9000Recommendedafter 11hAug 2026Read on Steam
Top five game audio design of all time -- it's truly special. The visuals are unique and excellent, and the narrative hints at itself in a mysterious but charming way. The gameplay is tight and rewards you with punchy audio/visual juice as you chain kills together. Super fun and highly recommended.
XdashTREMERecommendedafter 1.0hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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GoNNER scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/437570/gonner
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players0
Critics
81
Players
81
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,347 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperArt in Heart
PublisherRaw Fury
GenreRoguelike
Released2016
Achievements19