VVVVVV
BANGER · Action · 2010
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $1.24 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.08/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 10,577
- Critics
- 81 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.4h
- To 100%
- 5h 2.1x the story
- Finish
- 18% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 19
Price and sales
- Sales
- 64 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 January 2014
- Sale every
- 65d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14 now
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
18% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 64 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Its score 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 $8.75.
More about VVVVVV
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 puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 386 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 1,511 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.24 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 16 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 timeless classic. The base game will take about one to two hours to complete, but there is plenty of extra content available to keep players busy for many more.
2 more reviews
This game might be short, but the other content packed into it is insane. It takes around 3 hours to beat the game, but to get all the other achievements adds a whole other level of difficulty. Music is one thing i heavily appreciate from this game, as all the osts are phenomenal, and i dont think ill hear anything like it again in a lifetime. The only problem is the name being 6 V's, like i get the lore...
Love the base game up to 20 trinkets. As someone who loves platformers, though, the postgame feels incredibly unrewarding and tedious to play through. Doesn't stop me from enjoying the base game. 8/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Direct X9.0c Compatible Card, 41 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
VVVVVV scores 96/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/70300/vvvvvvReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.