VVVVVV
BANGER · Action · 2010
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.4h
- Value
- $2.08/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Direct X9.0c Compatible Card, 41 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
January 2014 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. It has been discounted 62 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 66 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 9 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Celeste ($19.99, scores 76) and SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $8.74, and you are being asked for $4.99.
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 15 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 18 percent of players ever finish it. On a 2.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. None of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 1,505 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.4 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
18% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
11 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
VVVery fun, not too long for a single playthrough with replayable modes and additional challenges. but looking at the achievements, nope no thanks I am done. I did have some issues, the controls were not at all as snappy or responsive as I would expect for a precision platformer especially one so exacting, and much the same, hitboxes were poorly defined: I would die with a visibly clear gap between me and the...
kinda funny that veridian is a green color and verdigris is like a cyan but Captain Veridian is a gray-cyan color while Chief Verdigris is green what could this mean i did not intend for that to rhyme but i've already taken so much time you may wonder how, may wonder why but i'm gonna stop, so goodbye OR AM I?
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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VVVVVV scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/70300/vvvvvvThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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