Commander Keen
Worth it · Action · 2007
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Windows only.
Commander Keen: Invasion of the Vorticons: Episode 1: Marooned on Mars (Dec. 14th 1990) Episode 2: The Earth Explodes (1991) Episode 3: Keen Must Die! (1991) Commander Keen's very first adventure, and the debut of id's groundbreaking side-scrolling technology.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
June 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.90. 65 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tcheco in the Castle of Lucio ($0.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition ($9.99, scores 55).
This site sampled 333 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 821 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 10:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Commander Keen scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/9180/commander-keenReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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