STANDBY
Skip · Action · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $0.89.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $0.81/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 234 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Never STANDBY in this fast-paced, precise platformer and get out of the glitched world! Can you do it faster than anyone?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 Mb, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 80 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.89 at 70 percent off still sits 102 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. BARRIER X ($0.89, scores 69) and Airscape - The Fall of Gravity ($4.99, scores 63) both outscore it.
More about STANDBY
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
2% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
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...
2 more reviews
Very fun IL speedrunning platformer. Can take a bit to get used to the movement but once you do it feels very fun and fluid.
Hard to learn, harder to master. I recommend buying only if you want a challenging game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
STANDBY scores 42/100 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/494580/standbyReviews 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.