The Binding of Isaac
BANGER · Roguelike · 2011
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99. Typically $1.54 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour
- $0.46/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 63,059
- Critics
- 84 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 10.9h
- To 100%
- 144.2h 13.2x the story
- Finish
- 2% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 99
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 November 2014
- Sale every
- 37d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 186 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 78% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
63 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Downwell ($2.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Never Split the Party (free, scores 44).
More about The Binding of Isaac
84 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
17 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 5,845 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.9 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 144, 13 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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
Good game, but I can't say in good faith that buying this would be an ideal decision for casual players. Why? Good question. Let me explain that. See, I love TBoI: Rebirth with all my heart. Got all the DLC, and the game is a wonderful chaotic experience. That is why I got this game, and the DLC-- because I want to not only see what was in this games past, but also just have a blast through memory lane of what used...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
flash isaac is like rebirth if it played like trash and treasure rooms only spawned once every 9 runs
Still holds up after all these years. Rebirth can easily get overwhelming after all the new DLC, so it's nice to come back to this version every now and again.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X9.0c Compatible Card, 51 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
The Binding of Isaac scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/113200/the-binding-of-isaacReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.