My Friend Pedro
BANGER · Shooter · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 80% over the last 30 days against 95% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT 440 (1024 MB), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was April 2025. It has been discounted 52 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 68. The current cut is what makes it a 96.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games closest to it, NOT A HERO ($19.99, scores 45) and BONEWORKS ($29.99, scores 64) both come in lower.
$8.24 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $3.99.
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Players rate it 95 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 80 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 4,416 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
4.1 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
82% start to 30% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
22 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
My Friend Pedro is a fast paced side-scrolling shooter-platformer. It merges Max Payne-like slow mo' dual-wielding gun fu with parkour platforming, which results in amazing cinematic action. The controls seemed unresponsive at first - my character didn't do what I had in mind and I kept dying after every checkpoint. But once I figured out how the movement works, learned how to properly dodge and stopped spamming it...
"My Friend Pedro" joins works such as "The Illiad" and "Catcher in the Rye" as a cultural cornerstone of humanity. The game, while simplistic to a passerby, contains an ocean of nuance and themes that the average consumer may never fully grasp. Our protagonist is nameless, he is a vehicle for the modern player - or perhaps representative humanity as a whole. He knows nothing except what is relayed to him by a...
The game is really the most fun for the first half then the rest is utter ass. The Idea is simple, you add a cool gameplay mechanic that is meant to be used to get big scores and ad depth to the gameplay. In reality most of these mechanics and or gimmicks that come later are genuinely painful and ♥♥♥ suck/ make it impossible to really style. The skateboard should be ♥♥♥ epic but it get ♥♥♥ stuck on everything and...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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My Friend Pedro scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/557340/my-friend-pedroThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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