Jolly Rover

Jolly Rover

Fair · Narrative · 2010

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.9h 5.5h to 100%
Value
$2.56/hr
Reviews
88% of 353 positive
It needs 55% off ($4.53) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.53 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.49 (75% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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

Holding it back
Value$2.56/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 42 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

A comedic 2D point and click adventure, featuring a crazy cast of poxy pirate pooches.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Standard, 164 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 46 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Pilgrims ($6.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Lil' Guardsman ($19.99, scores 69). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Jolly Rover

71 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

The drop-off

50% start to 5% 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

Jolly Rover, developed and published by Brawsome, is a traditional point-and-click adventure that leans heavily into humor, character, and classic design sensibilities. Set in a whimsical pirate world inhabited entirely by anthropomorphic dogs, the game follows Gaius James Rover, an unlucky protagonist whose quiet life quickly spirals into a chaotic journey across the high seas. From the very beginning, the game...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 10hApr 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Jolly good game! It features everything a bold adventure has to feature and playing it is a lot of fun. What else to ask for?
Alexander MirdzveliRecommendedafter 16hJul 2024Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Jolly Rover scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/58200/jolly-rover
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+17
Critics71
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 353 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBrawsome
PublisherBrawsome
GenreNarrative
Released2010
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements16