Paradiddle
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$24.99Skip
On its price record
$12.98Fair
- Length
- 1h
- Value
- $24.99/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 687 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.98 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 26 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
So much more than a VR drum kit. Learn to drum step by step, flex your skills with the built-in rhythm game, and build your own custom kit from a library of 60+ percussive instruments without the limitations of money or physical space. Fun, intuitive drumming for pros and newcomers alike!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 (equivalent or better), 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
11 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 25 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Incredibox ($4.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Cooking Simulator VR ($4.99, scores 30).
More about Paradiddle
Steam's global achievement data puts about 7 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 217 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 33 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
56% start to 7% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 7 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 01:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
hehe drum go bonk :D But seriously, this game is great. It gets you and running really fast, its intuitive, the drums sounds are dope, and most importantly, its really fun >:). Downloading and importing custom songs from the ParaDB website is super easy (unzip, then drag n drop into the correct folder (for me its Documents > Paradiddle > Songs). You can also translate most songs from Chorus Encore into the .rlrr...
2 more reviews
Playing with customs songs is the way to go with this game. Also, please increase the haptic response to max so that for more drum feedback on the sticks. I get the custom songs from paradb dot net
PLAY WITH MODS!! I can spend hours at a time just playing music I listen to throughout the work day. paradb is your song mod website.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Paradiddle scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/685240/paradiddleReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.