Summer Sale

Summer Sale

Skip · Strategy · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 6, under the fair line, at $0.99.

Length
0.8h
Value
$1.24/hr
Reviews
60% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

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.

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.24
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$0.99
as of Oct 2
Reviews
60%
921 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

Experience Winter Sale without losing money.
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
Value$1.24/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews60% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.8 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ 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 92 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 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. Its cuts run 51 percent off as a rule. There have been 71 in the 10 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. Castle Flipper ($18.99, scores 11) outscores it, and so does AdVenture Communist (free, scores 13). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 546 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 65 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

51% start to 27% 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

What players say

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メᵃʳᶜᵃᵈᵉ™ 💗Recommendedafter 1.1hOct 2024Read on Steam
A lot of negative reviews out there with their authors not realising that this game is a troll game made for the laughs and no one is taking it seriously. Even as a troll game its still pretty cool and funny. Oh and it costs just 0.99 cents or even less on sale. And for that money you get funny steam sale simulator with a bonus! The bonus is that this game has only 6 achievements which are super easy to complete, so...
CyReXRecommendedafter 1.4hJun 2024Read on Steam
This, yeah... It's a game that works. After a little while you get bored of it. Definitely a meme game.
StraliqueNot recommendedafter 4.9h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Summer Sale scores 6/100 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/485890/summer-sale
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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 28, price as of Oct 2.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperDuctape studio
PublisherDuctape studio
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Achievements6