Squidlit
Worth it · Action · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.6h 1.2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.32/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 441 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Every day is a wonderful day for invertebrates! Come join the Squidlits of Blipston for a squishy adventure of spoopy castles, muffins, and wiggles! Made with classic handheld technology in mind, Squidlit strives to be the closest modern recreation of GameBoy game-design methods on the market.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 61 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Squidlit
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 281 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 88 percent of everything written about it.
0.6 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
30% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Fun little game :) Very short, but then it is very cheap. Nice for a little retro-themed nostalgia.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Squidlit scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/799510/squidlitReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.