Freebie

Freebie

Skip · Short indie · 2016

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $1.99.

Cost per hour▼
$4.98/hr
Reviews▼
74% of 1,408
Genre rank
Top 49% Short indie

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
0.4h
To 100%
1h 2.5x the story
Achievements
5

Price and sales

Sales
97 on record
Typical cut
51% off
Steam low
$0.49 August 2016
Sale every
30d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
67% of its genre
Better reviewed
48% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

8% start to 5% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

97 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.

Its score puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, OutDrive ($2.99, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats Anarchy Arcade (free, scores 21).

More about Freebie

Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 183 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.

0.4 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 3 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Cost per hour$4.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 97 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

What players say

Got it free then it did my shift boss gave bonus wife smiles even cat stopped being raccoon
🍀 WinteraidRecommendedafter 5.1hApr 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.4hJan 2024Read on Steam

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

About the game

Freebie is a casual game where you launch a ball against a paddle and hit a green surface. Be careful not to hit the red surfaces or you'll lose a life!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Freebie scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/487220/freebie
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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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFree Games Info
PublisherBack To Basics Gaming
GenreShort indie
Released2016
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements5