Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler
Fair · Narrative · 2016
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h 2.3h to 100%
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 247 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 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
Duke Grabowski is a classic point-and-click adventure, created with love by an indie team that includes Bill Tiller (The Curse of Monkey Island, Steven Spielberg's The Dig, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine).
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 19 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island ($2.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42).
More about Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler
Steam's global achievement data puts 39 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
50% start to 39% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Definitely worth the two bucks! Pretty light and casual as adventure games go, with some solutions that were simpler than I expected. Bill Tiller's background art is just beautiful throughout, though the character models are a little weird and uncanny sometimes (odd faces, weird body movements, some women's hands are *really* weird). Plays pretty leisurely, with fun custom responses to trying all the actions on...
2 more reviews
It's a nice time, a cute little adventure, but it's a bit rough in ways like the developers didn't really know how to make a game on a tiny budget.
Pretty cute, it s a three hour game for 10 euros, but it s on offer regularly. i just bought it on full price because only three hours gives people who work for it money to carry on. You do get a fun mix of larry and guybrush , made with love. I think that what would improve it would be that he would romance someone seriously. I loved having a jaguar in my inventory. like the time you stuff a ladder in your...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler scores 55/100 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/472420/duke-grabowski-mighty-swashbucklerReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.