Bomb Chicken
Fair · Action · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h 6.8h to 100%
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 352 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.85 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% 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
About the game
After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities., 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
24 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Endorlight ($0.99, scores 7).
More about Bomb Chicken
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 215 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
96% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 00:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A pretty darn fun game, a blast if you will. Now that Nitrome is onto reviving their classics I figured it's about time I get onto trying their other games too. Bomb Chicken immediately hits you with that old school Nitrome charm. I adore the art. Even though the game is light on story I love that they still cared to make it all feel connected and fit thematically, the locations and enemy designs have a lot of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
For starters this is not a Casual game. The second half of the game could be added to Super Meat Boy or Celest and nobody would complain. That being said, it doesn't make the game bad. On the contrary, it's nicely challenging, especially if you will go for collecting all the crystals (which I highly recommend doing). But let's get to the basics. The main gimmick of the game is the fact that it's a puzzle-platformer...
This ain't it for me. Pros: -Beautiful and charming pixel art presentation -Innovative, satisfying gameplay -Great attention to detail in environmental design and interactions -Tight solid controls -Completely whimsical Bomb Chicken very quickly became a miserable experience after the initial wow factor. There is nothing satisfying about slogging through already completed sections of a game because you ran out of an...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bomb Chicken 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/658780/bomb-chickenReviews 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.