Shank
Worth it · Action · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.22/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 4,081
- Critics
- 67 players 23 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.1h
- To 100%
- 9.8h 3.2x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 67 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 October 2015
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 4% rarestThis 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
Across all 67 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 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).
More about Shank
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 443 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 474 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
What players say
A short but good 2D beat'em up game. Great soundtrack Decent story Good physics Average boss fights 7/10
2 more reviews
Gameplay is very smooth. Lots of different ways of killing enemies. I like the animated style of this game. Very short but well executed. 10/10
its a great platformer to pick up and just stabby stab. Also has clean animations
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Shank scores 70/100 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/6120/shankReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.