Tennis Elbow 4
BANGER · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 27.5h
- Value
- $1.09/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Created by and for tennis fans, Tennis Elbow 4 is a true tennis simulation built around anticipation, positioning and risk management. Easy to start, demanding to master, it delivers exceptional gameplay depth and long-term progression.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
January 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $22.49. 57 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mount Your Friends ($4.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats OverDrift Festival ($9.99, scores 41).
The math says it holds its tier up to $31.66, and you are being asked for $29.99.
This site sampled 340 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 123 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
62% start to <1% 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
103 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 09:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It may not look the best out of the tennis simulations available out there, but the gameplay is by far the most varied out of all the games. Every game style and shot in the book is viable. Serve and volley, dropshotting, pushing, hard hitting, you name it, all is a potential way of winning the point. And that makes the game feel so much better than the other tennis games i tried. Of course the game has some...
If you want to enjoy playing real tennis, this game is the right choice. The dynamic movement of the players and the ball is unbelievable, I would say it is very realistic.
This is amazing, The most fun sport game i've ever played, This is the "Arma" of the Tennis games, everything is there, the realism, the carrer mode is super complete, very awesome job by the dev team, i want to thank for this, I've played Top Spin 4 since he ps3 and the 25k version for a long time, didn't realize how much i was missin if you like Tennis please give it a try, so the community grow. The ATP founders...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Tennis Elbow 4 scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/760640/tennis-elbow-4Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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