Bloons TD 6
BANGER · Strategy · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $13.99.
- Length
- 37.3h
- Value
- $0.38/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible, ATI, Nvidia or Intel HD, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in November 2019. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 45 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. 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 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bloons TD 5 ($9.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Ninja Kiwi Archive (free, scores 77).
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 6,658 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that. The sticker price is where the spending starts.
Finishing takes 37.3 hours; clearing it takes 593, which is 16 times the campaign.
8 years after release it still had 7.5K people in it at once.
2 players here own this. Their libraries average 65 BANG. See the leaderboard →
The drop-off
88% 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
7,489 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
i dont think ive ever actually raged at this game, ive gotten a little pissed, but other than that this game is so chill and makes me wanna spread joy and kindness, definitely get this game for your kid like i did, hes loved it
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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Bloons TD 6 scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/960090/bloons-td-6The 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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