Heroes of the Monkey Tavern
Skip · RPG · 2016
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 5.3h 8.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 437 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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
About the game
Heroes of the Monkey Tavern is a first-person dungeon-crawling game designed as an introduction to the genre : simplified rules, balanced puzzles and challenges. An independent project developed solo.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Shader Model 3.0 GPU ; NVidia GeForce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 5670, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 86 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 38 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, Legend of Grimrock ($2.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Underworld Ascendant ($29.99, scores 0).
More about Heroes of the Monkey Tavern
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The drop-off
73% start to 23% 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
Monkey Tavern is a dungeon crawler that is suitable for people that does not have ample time for puzzles. It is short and it does it job. Even leveling up you have no control on what stats to increase or what skills to pick. It is all auto. There are 8 classes to choose from for players to mix and match but you indeed need a healer for some of the tougher fights as there is no item shop and potions are limited. Very...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Heroes of the Monkey Tavern scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/492500/heroes-of-the-monkey-tavernReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.