ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!
Fair · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 1GB / AMD Radeon HD 4870 1GB, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! is a mash-up of the very best features of the classic console games with a ton of fresh improvements! Explore Earth as funky aliens from planet Funkotron trying to find your missing ship pieces to get back home in this casual co-op roguelike.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in October 2021. 38 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 69 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pizza Possum ($2.79, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse ($14.99, scores 12).
Critics scored it 76. Players sit 12 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 339 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 172 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
46% start to 1% rarestNo 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
Cite this score
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/516110/toejam-earl-back-in-the-grooveReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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