Pikuniku
Worth it · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$12.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.2475% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.19/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 11,930
- Critics
- 74 players 22 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.24 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.1h
- To 100%
- 6.5h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 60 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 January 2020
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 70 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 19% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
35% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
60 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $7.88 BANGER line 58 times.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 8 ($1.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats ibb & obb ($11.99, scores 73).
More about Pikuniku
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 22 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 639 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,996 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 903 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
3.1 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
At 3.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Love this game with all my heart and have replayed it too many times on too many devices. I'd recommend this to anyone in a heartbeat
1 more review, not recommended
i just wanna say, the base game itself was fun (the first time), now when you try to 100%, you realize not only do you NEED someone to coop with, theres also achievements you cant get post game. theres only ONE SAVE so all of your progress is wiped if you wanna 100% it. the dancing battle is also REALLY annoying because you need to get 100% on the first try to get the achievement, otherwise you have to restart the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Pikuniku is an absurdly wonderful puzzle-exploration game that takes place in a strange but playful world where not everything is as happy as it seems. Help peculiar characters overcome struggles, uncover a deep state conspiracy, and start a little revolution in this delightful dystopian adventure!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9600 GT (512 MB) / Intel HD Graphics 2500, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Pikuniku scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/572890/pikunikuReviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.