Bug Academy
Worth it · Action · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.69.
- Length
- 2.7h
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 305 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.69 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 18 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
Bug Academy is a crazy action game in which you control a swarm of insects. Break through walls while delivering fridges, send rockets into space using chili sauce or catch ghosts with a vacuum cleaner. Finish all the lessons and pass the final exam to become Bug Academy graduate!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560 or Radeon HD6870 with 1GB VRAM. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 64 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $4.69 BANGER line 58 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats PHOGS! ($4.99, scores 55).
More about Bug Academy
This site sampled 237 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
14% start to 4% 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
What players say
Physics sandbox for small kids, where you casually destroy a township while goofing around with a swarm of pigeon-sized flies. On xbox joypad it's very pleasant & easy to control, there are tasks to move stuff around, which you can neglect & just commit to mowing down the scenery made of colored blocks. The 1,5 hours of genuine kid's evil laughter - is it worth the price? You decide! 10/10 best Kaiju simulator in...
2 more reviews
It is a cute little weird filler game. When you are bored and want to play something to pass the time this one is pretty cute. NGL. Fly and break. The world is your bzbzb zbb zbzbz bzb zbz bz bbbzzzz bzb. Get the game or don't idk. The game is what it looks like. I have had fun playing it when I want something I don't have to commit to fr fr. I got it on sale. Its quirky. I like. Also some of the other reviews on...
So glad I found this gem. Laugh out loud ridiculous-ness. I found it really challenging, the requirements to pass the level are too high. The levels are "mini games", intended to improve your best time on the same course. It's visually stunning, the art design is cheerful and hypnotically 3D with textures and lighting.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bug Academy 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/881040/bug-academyReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.