Ding Dong XL
Worth it · Action · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.59.
- Length
- 0.1h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $5.90/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 906 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.29 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
A fast-paced, neon-infused arcade game with simple one-button controls! Addictive, easy to learn, and perfect for quick sessions. Challenge yourself to beat your high score while waiting in queue for another game!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB+, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 90 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.59 at 40 percent off still sits 23 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Orbt XL ($0.59, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).
More about Ding Dong XL
Of the 325 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 542 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
0.1 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 14 times the campaign.
The drop-off
24% start to 7% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 03:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Perhaps the best one-button game I've ever played. Simple, elegant, and well-designed.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ding Dong XL scores 72/100 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/862570/ding-dong-xlReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.