Richie's Plank Experience
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $14.99. Fair at $0.29, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2016 (lowest $6.39, Sep 2016).
- Length
- 0.1h
- Value
- $149.90/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 630 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.29 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 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
You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. You have a choice. Do you walk or do you freeze? Richie's Plank is the only VR experience that lets you clone any real-world plank into the virtual world for 2X the immersion.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 980 or better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 5 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 122 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. On the same math Job Simulator ($19.99, scores 58) and The Call of Karen (free, scores 50) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Richie's Plank Experience
7 of the 207 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 135 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 388 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 18:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
good game, but a BIT too scary (bc on feb 9th of this year which is 2026 i did spider pumpkin and it scared the living crap out of me i got so scared that i quit my steam link client lol)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
we use this for fear of height experiments in a research environment - very effective
It's really just a gimmick game, nice for parties and others to try but there's nothing to do in this game other than walking the plank but that does not make it worth $15. Maybe if it's on a heavy discount and you plan on having a lot of other people try it then buy it, otherwise don't bother.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Richie's Plank Experience scores 27/100 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/517160/richie-s-plank-experienceReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.