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Paddle Paddle Paddle
Developer Zoroarts
Paddle through pain. Solo or co-op. One paddle each. Lava everywhere. You’ll fall. You’ll scream. You might cry. Good luck and embrace the salt. From the Steam store page
245 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
72
Fresh
152 positive · 59 negative
95% range 66–78%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 152 | 59 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 3 | 1 | 26 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 1 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
554 of 649 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
72% recommend · 154 yes, 61 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 215 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (1,586 of 1,845 positive).
Many players find it a fun, rage-inducing co-op game that tests friendships. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the game as short, unpolished, and overpriced. [4][5][6] Several players condemn refunding the game after completion, calling it disrespectful. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
short, uninteresting. charging extra for additional maps in an already awfully short game is a joke
- [7]
Great game, fun with friends, fun concept. please support developers, don't abuse the refund policy.
- [2]
First it was paddle paddle paddle...but after some minutes into it....yeah, it escalated to: "I WANNA SMASH THIS PADDLE INTO THE FACE OF MA FRIEND, STUPID MONKEY THO!!!" ....it was a nice game and a friendship-tester...we are still friends. (i guess?) Skin-game is good, my fashion heart approved!
- [1]
Played with my favourite bottom, he called me a b*tch and then spanked me with his paddle. Was a good game, would strongly reccomend
- [3]
peak ragebait and honestly a prime friendship destroyer. the game can be very difficult unless your in synch with a partner because again the game is very rage inducing and you attempt speedrunning for the game you must be a pyscohpath to do so
Summarised from 34 of the 252 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Paddle Paddle Paddle sits at 72% positive across 211 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 245 · most liked firstshort, uninteresting. charging extra for additional maps in an already awfully short game is a joke
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Reduce consumerism rights so I can profit off my friendslop game"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dev thinks Steam should further restrict consumers rights and eliminate the 2 hour gameplay window for refunds. As someone who has actively been screwed out of refunds for even less gameplay or AAA studios padding their tutorial, I think Mateo is extremely out of touch and emotional because his own game isn't long enough. Won't be considering other games from this dev if that's how he's going to act and tempted to pursue a refund frankly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For $5 or even $3 , this game somehow still manages to feel overpriced. The core problem is simple: people are finishing it in under two hours, realizing there is not much here, and refunding it. That is not some grand injustice. That is literally Steam’s refund system working as intended. If your game can be completed that quickly and leaves players feeling like they got nothing worth keeping, maybe the issue is not the customers. The game itself feels unfinished, clunky, and painfully…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is alright, some technical and desync issues, but there's tons of games like this so pick whatever floats your boat. However I cannot in good faith leave a positive review for a developer actively attempting to take away consumer rights, because he's unhappy that his massive success of a game didn't make ENOUGH money. Attempting to frame all refunds as unfair because "dozens" apparently refunded the game after they beat it is just absurd. If there's 55k+ refunds and out of those a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Look, this doesn't feel well made. It comes across as barely passable "friendslop" with minimal effort put in. It's clearly just something pushed out for revenue while chasing trends. I don't know why the dev is whining over refunds, but I half suspect the dev is simply trying to capitalize on the controversy of CCC/ESA. There are Source maps with more effort put into a singular room than this entire game has shown. Frankly, it seems to be drivel that should have been relegated to itch.io.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is very simple. You could probably find something similar as this in a free flash game. I will be asking for a refund. NEXT !
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →55k refunds? when the game barely peaked at 400? absolute friendslop shovelware, i'd rather play a replica of this game on roblox for free.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Obviously I will refund this game, but want to make it clear to the developers that it is not cause I completed it in under 2 hours and this game has no replay-ability, but because it is low effort ragebait streamer trash. It manages to stand out as especially bad in an already lazy genre given the movement is janky and the whole game would not look out of place for free on NewGrounds circa 2010. The developer seemingly read a couple of troll comments saying they would refund after completing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Zoroarts - "thought it might be funny to make a game" X "thought it might be funny to refund an over priced game" Gamers "$5 for a 1hour game is like spending $350 for a $70 game.... Of course I'm gonna refund this pile of pew" Blockbuster rentals were cheaper and you could play longer. Imagine being the type of person to slap a handful of things together, spend $0 of your own money and profit over $1mil, then cry about 20% refund rate? If the game was priced appropriately maybe little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If your game is less than 2 hours long and has 0 replay value, then the refund is a dev problem, not steam having one of the best features which is the ability to refund bad games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →People are right to refund this garbage. It says I bought the game and DLC.. I cannot even figure out how to access Up Up Up content. It's just a map in game? I dunno it asks me to start and only shows one map. The game sucks, I hate the graphics. I'm not totally into these frustrating "touch anything and die" games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ultimately, the game seems to have been very rushed. The camera clips continually while the music, sound effects, and voicelines are repetitive and get quite grating very quickly. Plus, the dev has the audacity to sell DLC for what seems to be a very short game, if his own comments are to be believed. 3/10, do not recommend.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another game made for one goal, money and they complain about people refound. Guess what ? Refound
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Low effort and uninteresting
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game, fun with friends, fun concept. please support developers, don't abuse the refund policy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worst game i ever played. i should be the one getting paid.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was interested in playing this with a friend until I found out the solo dev posted a "pity me" tweet on X, complaining about the 2 hour refund window and how so many people refunded this game... Okay well maybe these people refunded your game because they genuinely regretted their purchase, other than that one guy was doing it for speed-running. Dude's trying to encroach on our consumer rights so that he could stay in the Forbes 30 Under 30. Nuh uh.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is just friendslop with bugs called Features, if this was relased on Itchi.io or by a big company it'd have been review killed; But since it was a so called Indie developer people gave it good reviews; Refund the game if you can or don't even buy it. The dev thinks that the consumer rights given to us by the SEA, EU, LATAM and USA should be changed so he can make more money with a trashy friendslop.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slopware uninteresting game play dlc-gated contents thatshould have been in the base game considering this slop of a product was priced at $5 horrible art style and ui/ux for a pc game this thing is comparable to a browser game and it should have been free to be honest
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I launched the game and sat in the menu for 5mins just so I could leave a review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →why is there so little to do in the game? the premise is kind of fun but after only 1.5 hours i quickly got bored of the repetitive nature of the game and before that my group of friends could only handle playing it together for one turn each before we all got bored of playing it. If they add more content then maybe it'll be worth purchasing but I doubt even then that it would be
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played with my favourite bottom, he called me a b*tch and then spanked me with his paddle. Was a good game, would strongly reccomend
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My monkey friend is getting better and better, easy under 1.5h run.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Saw the news in germany about ppl who refund this game after completed whole game within 2h. Ordered and like this game it is very funny and shame to all who refunded by abuse the steam policy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Should be free, Refunded
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It suprised me how Steam allow to push into market such a low quality peace of code. Game doesn't start properly, I only hear ♥♥♥♥♥♥ sounds and that's all
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game caused me great distress. i found my face awash with tears and sweat alike. perhaps my IQ is lacking, perhaps i'm just terrible at games... regardless of the reason, this game proved to be too much of a ragebait for my feeble brain. Whilst playing it, I began to ruminate on all the horrible things that had occured to me throughout my life; heartbreak, sickness, loss... what should've been a silly little game turned into some existential crisis on steroids. Mashing two buttons suddenly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I shoulda refunded this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of those games that you play with a friend and have a frustratingly good time. I didn't refund it because I'm not a jerk and will play it again in the future.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Desync makes the game unplayable at the disappearing platforms, on the hosts screen he can go but on the friends screen its completely different timings, impossible to beat without fix from dev
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great game with friends for 7.50 why would you get a refund, get a refund on cod or bf6 lol
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →doo doo game. very highly recommend to play for under 2 hours and then refund out of spite.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible co-op experience. Choppy asl... Refunding out of spite.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yeah don't do it. way too short and it's janky.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →★★★★☆ - A good game for 1 buck I finished the game in 1 hour and 9 minutes. I enjoyed it. 1 hour for a buck. Worth it. No refund/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awful. I didn't expect much, but.... what's the opposite of exceed expectations?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →gifted my friend this game and he never received the game. why are we charging money for a game that looks like it was made with claude. Lets not forget the fact that the game takes less than 2 hours to beat and is also friend slop. im not gonna pay extra money for some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ dlc either. dont market your game as "stupidly long" when it is still in the refund window
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this game from a lucky dip, now I'm stuck with it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the worst thing I have ever played, the DEVS voice made my ears bleed and caused several head traumas (me trying to drown his voice out with my table and a lot of chemicals). Do not play this game for your own sake. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody found it its just a hidden malware distributor. Absolutely do not buy this, you'd be better off using the £4 as rolling paper to smoke with.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →yes i open this game 5 min for this comment
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First it was paddle paddle paddle...but after some minutes into it....yeah, it escalated to: "I WANNA SMASH THIS PADDLE INTO THE FACE OF MA FRIEND, STUPID MONKEY THO!!!" ....it was a nice game and a friendship-tester...we are still friends. (i guess?) Skin-game is good, my fashion heart approved!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun, but not for everyone and this develepor dont like that people can refund the game. If you dont like Steam refund policy, go sell it somewhere else. Without Steam store your game would not even sell 1000 copies.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I beat the game in 119 minutes! Refund Time! Woooooooo!!!!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game to play with a friend. Takes a bit to fully grasp but once you get the hang of it it is a lot of fun to mess around and yell at your friend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very cool game, and unlike those disrespectful chumps out there. I'm not gonna refund it to be a cheap prick. 🔥
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought the game was cool and got it when it released but, knowing that the developers are a bunch of crybaby morons, I can't recommend the game. The solutions to people speed running your game and then refunding it is A: make your game longer B: fix speed running tech C don't whine about it on socials The devs are pathetic and hopefully are no longer support on future titles.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have a lot of mixed feelings about this one. The developer mentions the idea of having "expected time to complete" featured on the Steam Store page, and using that as an exception for 2 hour refund periods. But he also says he intended this Paddle game to be between 3-4 hours long. He was already aware of the problem of short games on Steam, made efforts to avoid it, and still missed the mark. By his own admission, his game would not meet his own recommended refund exception. He also…
neutral · AI labelView post →ZoroArts spent four months solo-developing Paddle Paddle Paddle, a co-op paddle-based rage game that went on to sell over 183,000 copies on Steam. See more: www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/co... #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Poorly made garbage I never would even have glanced at if I hadnt seen an article of the dev being a whiny little ♥♥♥♥♥ about Steam refund policies. (https://www.techspot.com/news/113030-indie-developer-steam-refund-policy-cost-well-reviewed.html) Like, bro, instead of throwing a whole tantrum, trying to overthrow a refund policy that works great for everybody, why dont you try making a real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game instead? Something worth time investment or replayability, instead of just shooting some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Graphics are really low quality, game is buggy but gameplay is fine
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was boring asf. So much so that I beat the whole game and refunded it. Bum ahh dev really thought that tweet was gonna do something about it. Who u feelin like lil dude.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't play this with your girlfriend, it will ruin the experience. otherwise great rage game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We bought the game because we thought it would be a challenge. We're in—first playthrough—all achievements... BUT it's a really, really funny game, and I recommend it to anyone who might want to yell at their partner because they've been stupid again and paddled one too many times Thumbs up
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →peak ragebait and honestly a prime friendship destroyer. the game can be very difficult unless your in synch with a partner because again the game is very rage inducing and you attempt speedrunning for the game you must be a pyscohpath to do so
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was boring and very sloppy, not worth even 5 dollars, game said it had ~7 hours of gameplay but was only an hour and 40 minutes long so i refunded it. zoroarts thought he was cute with that tweet.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Our rage game + 3 indie rage games we’re loving right now: 🔥Hellbound Inc 🌲The Trees Hate You 🛶Paddle Paddle Paddle 🗻A Difficult Game About Climbing Got any other rage-inducing indie games we should try? @tykenn.games #indiegane #gamedev #ragegame
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨Game Announcement🚨 Paddle Paddle Paddle is a Game about paddling xD Paddle alone or with a friend and Survive This dangerous parcour 🛶😱 #Indiegame #Gamedev #Indiedev
neutral · AI labelView post →PEAK friendslop. Played this with da boyfriend and we had a blast. Achievements are pretty simple as well, even the speedrunning one wasn't that hard. If you're bored and have a close someone to play with, this is the game for you. Also, don't speedrun just to refund an indie game. Have some respect.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fun! Its silly, challenging, and me and my buddy had a lot of fun playing it. But around mid game towards the game it became unplayable. While the game worked perfectly fine for the host, the one who joined got huge delay with every paddle. We tried to get passed that area hoping it was an area thing, and while it was difficult we managed to get through. We spent time trying to fix it, even switched host, and started a new game. The game works fine till a certain area and since…
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