City Climber
Skip · Action · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.3h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 457 positive
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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
City Climber is a silly physics-based game about a floppy ragdoll climber, who has to save the world. Find your way through diverse hand-crafted environments and enjoy funny challenges full of falling and destruction.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 69 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy ($1.99, scores 65) outscores it, and so does A Difficult Game About Climbing ($9.99, scores 63). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about City Climber
1 of the 257 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 222 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 61 percent of everything written about it.
2.3 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
63% start to 4% 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
What players say
It's far from perfect. It's janky, imprecise, and sometimes confusing and infuriating, and yet I keep coming back to it. It's fun and addictive in such a way that I'm constantly willing to overlook all of my grievances with the game, to the point I've nearly 100%ed it. Overall, I genuinely really enjoyed my time with City Climber.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
City Climber scores 38/100 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/538840/city-climberReviews 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.