Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD

Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD

Worth it · Narrative · 2019

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99.

Length
2.7h
Value
$1.11/hr
Reviews
91% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.11
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
202 reviews, as of Sep 30
Metacritic
80
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Nelly Cootalot is the stupidly named pirate adventurer with a heart of gold. Uncover corruption and wanton punning in this HD revival of a classic freeware adventure game.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Value$1.11/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length2.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 112 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

June 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 84 in the 7 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lil' Guardsman ($3.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Lost in Play ($19.99, scores 66).

Critics scored it 80. Players sit 11 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

The drop-off

51% start to 11% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Cite this score

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Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/763030/nelly-cootalot-spoonbeaks-ahoy-hd
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Reviews 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 30, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+11
Critics
80
Players
91
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 202 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAlasdair Beckett-King
PublisherApplication Systems Heidelberg
GenreNarrative
Released2019
Achievements12