
Garbage Pail Kids are back in this Long-Lost, All-New platforming adventure. Featuring four playable characters, six secret-filled levels, and a trading-card system, Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is a throwback to the golden era of 80s gaming.
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The United States storefront in every case, so this compares stores and not countries.
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Aug 24 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Sums Steam only; PlayStation publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $9.99 | 53reviews | 89% | — | $9.9K |
| $9.99 | 99ratings | 87% | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
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Reviews
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Reviews
Nailed it in every category. An actual NES game from the era wouldn't have been this faithful to the property. And the looks, sounds, and difficulty will make you believe you're actually playing a forgotten 8 bit game. Bonus materials are generous, and even include a new GPK movie! This is how you do neo-retro.
Bought the game as a Steam key, installed it, it launches, it shows the developer and publisher info... and then just stays at a black screen. There's no way to get to the actual game. And the game hasn't been updated in a long time so there's liltle chance of a fix. If you buy it, don't be like me. Nab it on Steam, test it immediately. If it doesn't work, just refund. Edit: Figured out the problem: Having either Steam Input *or* the Steam Overlay active will cause this black screen. Disabling both from Steam itself lets the game start just fine! And once you press a button on your gamepad, the game will recognize the pad and let you play with it! I'm keeping this negative review, hopefully me figuring it out can help someone in the future.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
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The game that's been missing from our lives and we didn't know it. As a NES game it excels, similar to late era NES games in its look and variety. Huge bosses, The levels are each unique, and the whole thing is true to the spirit of Garbage Pail Kids. The card trading feature is a cool extra bit of gameplay, and the PC features like rewinding gameplay and saving were welcome. I can't wait to own/play the physical cartridge.
As a guy who collected GPK cards in 4th grade this game is amazing! Feels like unearthing a hidden gem from the 80's at a game stand at the swapmeet. Emulates the NES difficulty well without being cruel or unfair. They nailed the tone of the cards too! This game needs more eyes on it!
I think this might be my new favorite game. It might be gross, but the gameplay is spot-on perfect, imo. Like contra, if you fail, it's on you and means you just need to get good.
Having purchased, reviewed and generally been around the guys of 8-Bit Legit since Haunted Halloween 85', I am aware of their love and appreciation for retro and their ability to build a game. I am a couple of hours in to my play time of Mad Mike (between here and Xbox) and I will say that this is on brand GPK. This is truly out there, makes absolutely no sense, and that's what makes it so fun. Fishing in a toilet, a rubber bouncing baby? I mean, GPK was always gross, and to the letter absolute ridiculous. And Mad Mikes quest for Stale Gum is something that any retro enthusiast would love. Because of it's nonsensical play style, and retro difficulty. It's $10 bucks, and you cannot go wrong. Support Indie Devs or GTFO
Plays on the Deck out of the box. Only issue I saw was remapping controls were not reflected in submenus for trading and activating cards. Overall fun game and is made to accommodate all skill levels.
Ei, você que era uma criança nos anos 80/90. Tenho uma informação muito importante! Você se lembra de um álbum de figurinhas chamado Gang do Lixo? Pois saiba que esse é nada menos que o jogo com os lendários personagens daquele álbum! O álbum fez muito sucesso na época e assim como eu, muita gente jamais suspeitou que o nome original daquela coleção era Garbage Pail Kids. Lá nos Estados Unidos eles fizeram um sucesso maior ainda, surgiram como uma coleção de cards e depois ganharam até mesmo um filme, mas nunca tiveram um jogo de videogames. Talvez por esse motivo os desenvolvedores tenham trazido um jogo totalmente novo, mas no legítimo estilo 8 bits. Controlamos 4 personagens numa viagem pelo tempo, em busca de ingredientes muito peculiares. São eles: Mad Mike (que no álbum era conhecido como Antunes Capelar), Leaky Lindsay (Boneca Meleca), Patty Putty (Carlinhos Careta) e Luke Puke (que não constava no álbum). O jogo segue a clássica fórmula de plataformas, com a diferença que podemos alternar entre esses personagens a qualquer momento. Cada um deles possui seu próprio "poder", algo que confere uma profundidade muito interessante, principalmente num jogo com estilo retrô. Existem ainda diversas mecânicas pra dar um tempero a mais e até mesmo alguns extras, como a possibilidade de colecionar e trocar cards com outros personagens. No fim, Garbage Pail Kids entrega muito mais do que eu poderia esperar, indo muito além de um jogo de plataforma padrão. Apesar de levar o estilo clássico ao pé da letra, a jogabilidade é muito boa e precisa, não tive nenhum problema. Fique tranquilo, ao contrário dos jogos clássicos em cartuchos, aqui existe a opção de salvar as partidas. É importante destacar que quando digo que este é um legítimo jogo de 8 bits, não é nenhum exagero. No momento em que escrevo essa análise, está rolando a pré-venda de uma edição física limitadíssima no site da distribuidora iam8bit. Essa edição terá um cartucho de Nintendinho que funcionará de verdade no console clássico! Em resumo, se você busca uma autêntica experiência clássica, Garbage Pail Kids é obrigatório. E se você for fã desses personagens é mais obrigatório ainda! Os diálogos são ótimos e trazem aquele mesmo tipo de humor do álbum. Foi uma surpresa maravilhosa ver aqueles personagens que marcaram minha infância ganhando vida aqui nesse jogo. Ainda mais porque eu pensei que nunca mais os veria em nenhum outro lugar, muito menos aqui! Se você colecionou as figurinhas, aposto que também se lembra de muitos daqueles personagens até hoje. Pra fechar com chave de ouro, o jogo traz extras excelentes! O meu favorito é a galeria, que traz as imagens originais das figurinhas, lado a lado com suas respectivas versões em 8 bits. Me diverti e ainda continuo me divertindo com Garbage Pail Kids, descobri-lo foi uma das maiores alegrias que tive esse ano! Claramente é um produto desenvolvido com muito carinho para os fãs, não é um daqueles jogos feitos somente para tirar proveito da nostalgia. É uma recomendação fácil! OBS: Em nome da transparência, informo que recebi a chave para que pudesse analisar o jogo, mas isso não afetou em nada minha opinião.
Luke Puke needs to be put out of his misery
Recommendation: 60% The game's price and content are unbalanced. There is too little content, the playthrough is short, and the gameplay is limited. Much of the content from the original artbook hasn't been well presented, and there aren't many enemy types, which is a great pity. However, the pixel art style and scenes themselves are very beautiful. I recommend buying it when it's on sale. 推荐:60% 这款游戏的价格和内容并不平衡,游戏的内容太少了,流程短,玩法比较少,很多原版画册的内容都没有很好的呈现,敌人种类不是很多,非常可惜,但是游戏本身的像素风格和场景非常漂亮,我推荐打折的时候买.
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