FrostRunner
BANGER · Action · 2019
The verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel UHD Graphics 620, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
FrostRunner is a first-person platformer “speedrunning” game, where the player rapidly completes platforming challenges before the timer runs out. Using their tether tool, players compete to finish each of the 36 unique levels as quickly as possible and earn a place at the top of the leaderboards.
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
The value story
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell ($14.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Clustertruck ($14.99, scores 69).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.5-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend.
The main story runs 0.5 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 2.6 times as long.
The drop-off
94% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
FrostRunner scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/934840/frostrunnerReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.
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