Pummel Party
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.1h
- Value
- $2.11/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 GT / AMD HD 6850 / Intel HD Graphics 4400 or above, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Pummel Party is a 4-8 player online and local-multiplayer party game. Pummel friends or AI using a wide array of absurd items in the board mode and compete to destroy friendships in the unique collection of minigames.
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
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was April 2024. It has been discounted 36 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 12 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rubber Bandits ($2.49, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Party Animals ($9.99, scores 51).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 17 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 3,807 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.1 hours; clearing it takes 22, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
8 years after release it still had 1.1K people in it at once.
The drop-off
91% 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
1,096 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
Because of this game, I became enemies with all of my friends. ♥♥♥♥ the humanity of the person who made this game this ♥♥♥ unfair and the person who gave them the idea for this game.
Great game for me to absolutely destroy all my loser friends at cause they all suck so bad lmao
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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Pummel Party scores 61/100 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/880940/pummel-partyThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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