Pode

Pode

Fair · Multiplayer · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.6h 6.3h to 100%
Value
$4.35/hr
Reviews
90% of 648 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Raising the score
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$4.35/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 357 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Friendship is EVERYTHING! Play this award-winning title together with your friends, or switch between characters as your traverse a cute puzzle adventure on your own! Glo & Bulder come together to charm young and adult alike!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 620, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

47 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 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 Pode

Of the 357 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

61% start to 22% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

Fun, creative puzzles with great co-op mechanics. The story was heartwarming. Only downside is that the dark world levels were quite frustrating.
MaistlinRajereRecommendedafter 11hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Wholesome and cute litte game. This game is the definition of "Cozy couch co-op". Played it with my girlfriend on bad days, both happy afterwards. 10/10
EkkiheitiRecommendedafter 8.5hJun 2026Read on Steam
i really wanted to like this game but it greatly pursues the aesthetic over the gameplay experience - a lot of puzzles feel unintuitive or inconsistent which leads to just a lot of frustration (and me and my gaming partners I tried it with are usually good at puzzles). just not too satisfying and kind of a letdown. it also wasn't labelled as a couch co-op game very clearly, so I wasn't able to play it with the...
CharitudeNot recommendedafter 2.2hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Pode scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/944080/pode
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Reviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHenchman & Goon
PublisherHenchman & Goon
GenreMultiplayer
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements9