The Coin Game
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.39, a BANGER if it drops to $12.22.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $5.15/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 or Equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
A collection of ticket redemption arcades with realistic physics, a carnival, goofy robots, open world design, a global ranking system and silly prizes. Featuring 50+ modern inspired arcade machines and a pawn shop to keep money in your pocket. The Coin Game is made by a solo developer.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
February 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $8.00. It has been discounted 45 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $13.39 at 33 percent off still sits 67 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history. The math puts its BANGER price at $12.22. The record reaches that level 37 times.
Take the discount away and it is a 77. With it, 83.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wobbly Life ($16.24, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Internet Cafe Simulator 2 ($19.99, scores 27).
Of the 692 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 854 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.6 hours. Doing everything runs 86, 33 times as long.
The drop-off
57% start to <1% 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
Players
34 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
Broken game and zero updates or response from developer for one quarter at least. I've patiently waited for a fix with some certain machines for around a year (like, well, sh!t can happen and all stuff), but it seems that it won't be a priority anymore (I wonder if it will be fixed at all, lol). So, I guess, there is no reason to store this pile of assets on my rig anymore as well. Please, hear me out - DO NOT BUY...
Right now, it still needs work getting to back where it was. The publishing deal screwed this game and if the dev can't bring back the game to where is used to be, it might be over.. (The dev mentioned that this publishing deal hurt his game but he wants to fix, so depending on what happens next, only time will tell)
What i thought was gonna turn into an amazing game became nothing more than a cash grab by the creator. He hasnt added or changed in months. Game runs shotty all the time. Very sad to see. Do not buy.
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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The Coin Game scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/598980/the-coin-gameThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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