Super Meat Boy Forever
Skip · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 58% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia, AMD, or integrated chip (within the last 5 years), 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.69. That was May 2026. It has been discounted 28 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is less well reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. On the same math I wanna be the Creator ($5.99, scores 91) and BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Critics scored it 70, but players land 12 points lower at 58 percent. The reviews were kinder than the room.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 24 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 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 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 307 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 33 percent of the 778 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
4.4 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
45% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 4.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
I thought Super Meat Boy Forever was just another endless runner that took a character I already knew and put him in a different kind of game. I was wrong. The graphics are simple. The gameplay looks simple. Meat Boy runs. That's it. And somehow, it is absolutely brutal. At first, you think you can handle it. Then you hit a wall. Then another. Then another. Suddenly, you're repeating the same section for the tenth...
Overall, I've had a good time with Super Meat Boy Forever and I recommend it as a casual experience, but be advised that the deathless achievements are much, MUCH harder than the ones in the original Super Meat Boy.
Good amount of content for 5 dollars and the animation is impeccable but it is in every other way a downgrade from the original, lacking the liberation of getting to freely control your character while asking you to be even more precision which ends up frustrating more often than exhilarating, though I do have some fun with the hit stopping.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Super Meat Boy Forever scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/581660/super-meat-boy-foreverReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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