Scrap Garden

Scrap Garden

Skip · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 37, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
2.2h
Value
$4.54/hr
Reviews
75% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.54
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
75%
1,263 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
58
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATi Radeon HD 2400 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600+, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?
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

Raising the score
Engagement22% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length2.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 77 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

June 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 42 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 32 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Scrap Garden - The Day Before (free, scores 43) beats it on value, while it beats CAT Interstellar ($9.99, scores 23).

The press gave it 58; the people who bought it give it 75 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

78% start to 22% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Scrap Garden scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/465760/scrap-garden
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+17
Critics
58
Players
75
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,263 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperEgidijus Bachur
PublisherFlazm
GenreAction
Released2016
Achievements42