Worms Pinball
Skip · Short indie · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $7.99.
- Length
- 0.2h
- Value
- $39.95/hr
- Reviews
- 53% positive
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Windows only.
The Worms™ crew returns, and this time they’ve got balls! The classic Worms™ Pinball sends the cute little pink guys spinning across one of the most realistic pinball tables ever created.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in October 2015. It has been discounted 110 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Pinball FX Classic (free, scores 72) outscores it, and so does Zuma Deluxe ($4.99, scores 93). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 53 percent overall, and those are 69 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.2 hours; clearing it takes 1, which is 6.0 times the campaign.
What players say
This one? Exactly my thing. Worms Pinball looks old-school, sounds goofy… and plays like a perfect mix of pinball + Worms chaos. Pinball vibe? Strong. Worms humor? Still there. If you already love pinball, this just hits different. Same addictive "just one more round" feeling - but with Worms-style animations, sounds, and that goofy charm on top. It's not trying to reinvent anything. It just combines two things that...
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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Worms Pinball scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/70660/worms-pinballThe 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 5, price as of Sep 24.
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