Superliminal
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 66% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$7.9960% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $7.69/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 34,566
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 10.4h 4.0x the story
- Finish
- 50% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 27
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 October 2025
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 45 now
- Recent reviews
- 91% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 50% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 55 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $14.02, a level the record has reached 54 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Hyperbolica ($12.99, scores 49) and The Stanley Parable ($14.99, scores 62), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Superliminal
Steam's global achievement data puts 50 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 3,033 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.6 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 4.0 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 10 and Nov 23, at about $7.99 (60% off). Predictions like this were right 80% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 48 days apart.
Last discount ended 15 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
"Wow, what a masterpiece! I need to write a review." That's honestly the only thing that was on my mind after finishing the game. During my first playthrough, I was completely blown away by how smooth and well-crafted everything felt. And somehow, the game is just so beautiful in its own weird way. I walked through it like a little kid, fascinated by everything I saw and constantly wondering, "How did they even do...
2 more reviews
I suggest you go in blind. It managed to surprise me at every turn. I really like this game and it's one of those games that you really take away something from. Not performance heavy I'm like 90% sure. Perception is reality.
Humanity has a remarkable talent for making the same mistakes over and over again. Superliminal has a revolutionary suggestion: Have you tried looking at things from a different angle? Literally. What starts as a clever puzzle game in Portal-esque test chambers slowly turns into a wonderfully bizarre journey through everything, nothing, and whatever lies in between. Perspective is everything, nothing is quite what...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 750, 12 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Superliminal scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1049410/superliminalReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.