The Pedestrian
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$6.49BANGER
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?
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
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2024. 37 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.49. The record reaches that level 15 times.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mind Over Magnet ($2.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Munin ($4.99, scores 61).
81 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 457 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 399 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
78% start to 30% 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 26, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I've had my eye on Pedestrian since before it even released, so I'm honestly a little embarrassed that I've only just got around to playing it recently, as it's an absolute belter! The puzzles are clever and satisfying, the art style and presentation are fantastic, and the soundtrack is excellent. Obvious homages to Portal throughout but all welcomed. The twist at the end was completely unexpected too, but certainly...
This game is absolutely my cup of tea as a big fan of puzzle, 2D platformers and exploration games, this very much feels to me like a sort of Build your own Metroid meets Exit, where you have to figure out where to go next. I've got myself tangled in knots quite a few times trying to figure out where to go next, but oh my goodness this game has brilliant gameplay and puzzles. Loving the visuals, the sense of where...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Pedestrian scores 63/100 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/466630/the-pedestrianReviews 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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