Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
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A BANGER at $12.53, only fair at $39.99.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $2.67/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 2GB | AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Your favorite marsupial, Crash Bandicoot™, is back! He’s enhanced, entranced and ready-to-dance with the N. Sane Trilogy. Relive all your favorite moments in Crash Bandicoot™, Crash Bandicoot™ 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot™ 3: Warped, now in fully-remastered graphical glory!
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
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 61 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $12.53, a level the record has reached 2 times.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy ($39.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated ($29.99, scores 64).
This site sampled 600 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 1,901 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
15 hours to finish it, 47 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 15 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
83% start to 3% 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
311 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
best game for drinking game recommend my own version which is 1 sip if death, tnt death (2 sips) and aku aku 1 shot if nitro death, game over and 1 extra life you may add own funny spin but only if you are strong enough for it
absolutely N. Sane!! my all time favorite childhood game that instantly takes me back to my PS1 days 8 year old me would've 100%ed it without a second thought while I'm outta here struggling to do what kid me did effortlessly :')
Not the same game I remember, this is for sweaty speed runners. Making pixel perfect jumps feels like coin toss.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/731490/crash-bandicoot-n-sane-trilogyThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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