Shank
Worth it · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB and the Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB cards, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Shank is the cult-classic revival of the sidescrolling beat-em-up. Play as Shank in an over-the-top grindhouse game, packed to the rim with enemies, bosses, combos, and more by the award-winning team at Klei Entertainment.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in October 2015. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 66 in the 14 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Expendabros (free, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Shank 2 ($9.99, scores 63).
Critics scored it 67. Players sit 23 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
3 of the 442 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 472 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.1 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 3.2 times as long.
The drop-off
85% start to 4% 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
2 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
It's a good fun, 2D scrolling action beat'em up have a shared screen campaign which is very fun
finished it in 3hrs now but 15 years ago i couldnt even pass the stage 1 bought and played for memories 8/10 shanks
Shank is just mid game with boring story and gameplay, where after a hour of playing i founded a way to stun lock every enemy and with combo meter that doesn't reward you in any way.
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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Shank scores 70/100 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/6120/shankThe 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 3, price as of Sep 24.
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