The Coin Game

The Coin Game

Worth it · Strategy · 2026

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The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17

Worth it at $13.39, a BANGER if it drops to $6.05.

Cost per hour▼
$3.35/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 5,959
Genre rank
Top 4% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 70% off ($6.05) to be a BANGER.

Score at full price

Fair$19.99

Score today

−33%Worth it
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.05 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
4h
Achievements
27

Price and sales

Sales
47 on record
Typical cut
25% off
Steam low
$8.00 February 2019
Sale every
42d last November 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $8.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
11 now
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
97% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

57% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

It has been discounted 47 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $6.05, the price it would take to be a BANGER.

Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 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 СИМУЛЯТОР ОДИНОЧЕСТВА В РУССКОЙ ДЕРЕВНЕ ($1.99, scores 45).

More about The Coin Game

Of the 715 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. In its first 30 days on sale, 3 of 170 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 857 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.35/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set. That is today's sale price. Normally $5.00/hr
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds23 of 715 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

What players say

I recommend playing in the legacy version. Good arcade game, more than tower unite and feels more real.(Although tower unite is still fun)
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 17h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I can't even get the game to launch on the latest version, but I'm still giving this game a positive review because the Legacy version works fine and I'm guessing it's before everything went to shit. I've followed this game since the beginning and it's sad to see it's full release is awful. Seriously, just go into the Properties and then "game versions and betas" and switch it to Legacy and it's still the same old...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 6.4h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
YYYYikes. I was here for the OG versions of the game. Was really psyched for the development of this title. The vibes, the games, the....well, everything was or at least seemed to be going well. But this new publisher is total beans; Straight out of the can and COLD. This game is now broken beyond unreasonable beliefs in the most unheard of places, with glitches that were ironed out before this 1.0 release, and then...
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 4.2hOct 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 or Equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Coin Game scores 71/100 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/598980/the-coin-game
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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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

Developerdevotid
PublisherKwalee
GenreStrategy
Released2026
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements27