Heal

Heal

Fair · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Fair at $0.76, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2020. Buy it now if you want it.

Length
1.5h 2.9h to 100%
Value
$0.51/hr
Reviews
84% of 826 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Fair$6.99

Today

−89%Fair
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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
Value$0.51/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $4.66/hr
Holding it back
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 415 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

Guide an old man through the dark and atmospheric world of Heal in this abstract 2D puzzle-adventure point-and-click game.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB card capable of shader 3.0, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

July 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.76. It has been discounted 67 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 83 percent, about 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Cat Lady ($8.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats The Almost Gone ($9.99, scores 49).

More about Heal

Of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 362 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.

At 1.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

67% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Great game, pretty bittersweet. I love all the puzzles and how easy it is to understand them. Compared to Rusty Lake(it was the most memorable for me out of the franchise) it's much more enjoyable. The soundtrack is great, visuals are nice and the achievements are fun. Now for the only bad thing: i will never be able to get 100% on this game just because of that annoying speedrun achievement. Did i finish the game...
thatsmeslandy1312Recommendedafter 2.1hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
this is a fun puzzle game some of the puzzles are very confusing like the night puzzles but still ended but being pretty fun and for getting this for 76 cents definitely worth the money
silasmp9Recommendedafter 1.6hJul 2026Read on Steam
I don't normally like this theme, but I feel as though this game handled it respectfully. It told through feeling instead of through words. The puzzles were good as well, no complaints. This is my favorite Jesse Makkonen game so far, though I have yet to play Afterdream. There isn't much game here, only around an hour. but I got it on sale for under a dollar, and I'd strongly recommend it at that price. For full...
TeuthexRecommendedafter 1.2hApr 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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Heal scores 65/100 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/1056610/heal
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Reviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperJesse Makkonen
PublisherJesse Makkonen
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14