Donut County
Fair · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$12.99Fair
On its price record
$3.88BANGER
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $6.50/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Radeon HD 3870, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Donut County is a story-based physics puzzle game where you play as an ever-growing hole in the ground. Meet cute characters, steal their trash, and throw them in a hole.
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
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.24. It has been discounted 72 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 70 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. It becomes a BANGER at $3.88, a level the record has reached 2 times.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Pilgrims ($6.99, scores 67) and Duck Detective: The Secret Salami ($7.49, scores 79) both outscore it.
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 3,329 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
97% start to 17% 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
24 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
My ADHD has gotten rough with the way media is poured into our brains at all times these days. sometimes i just look at games and cant decide what to play. whats worth my time? Short bite sized games I can beat in a couple hours are worth my time. Ive played this game a couple times across different consoles over the years. I consider it a classic at this point.
I bought this for 3 euro and that's about what it's worth. I wouldn't pay full price for this. It's fine, less a game than an activity. There's a lot of dialog, probably half of the short play time is skipping through inane dialog. To be positive the graphics are charming and someone clearly put a lot of effort into this. I enjoyed that aspect of it and I appreciate that a human took the time to make this. There's a...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Donut County scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/702670/donut-countyReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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