Death's Hangover

Death's Hangover

Worth it · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.24.

Length
1.6h 5.2h to 100%
Value
$0.77/hr
Reviews
88% of 508 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Full price

Fair$4.99

Today

−75%Worth it
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.78/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $3.12/hr
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 141 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

About the game

Death's Hangover is a ball and bat game, featuring horror elements, mature comedy and themes.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 64mb graphics card, 215 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 107 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.24 at 75 percent off still sits 153 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Broforce ($14.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Distant Space 2 ($0.49, scores 59).

More about Death's Hangover

Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 1.6 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 3.3 times as long.

The drop-off

38% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

It's a no for me. The game is fun, don't get me wrong and the music is fun too. Problem is, it feels like someone with the humor of a 12 year old made all of the dialogue and achievements. Pick-a.ss-0 as a pun for picasso? Maybe i would have laughed at that in grade school. In addition, the hitboxes for some bosses like the monastery level are terrible. You can be a good inch from the lightning strikes and they...
WildfireNot recommendedafter 1.6h22 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A poorly made slapped-together piece of trash, entertainment for about 30 minutes... With decent pixel art but absolutely awful, miserable gameplay (in arcade game, Carl!), a couple dozen clunky game design choices, bugs, and even the possibility of getting soft-locked during playthrough (IN ARCADE GAME, CARL!). Didn't even bother reading the story - just a stream of dull nonsense trying to pass itself off as humor...
K3NG00R00Not recommendedafter 5.3h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Death's Hangover is a good little Breakout game with a few ideas that make the familiar ball and paddle routine feel more involved. It is not mind blowing, and it does not need to be. If you like Arkanoid and want something casual to dip into, this is an easy recommendation from me. I've been playing it in short daily sessions, usually around ten to twenty minutes, while working toward the achievements. That rhythm...
DethyanRecommendedafter 5.7h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Death's Hangover scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/521920/death-s-hangover
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperRetro Army Limited
Publisherpaulstephendavis
GenreAction
Released2017
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50