Filament
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 18.1h 26.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.94/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 763 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
About the game
Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6870, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
40 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Waveform ($1.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Osmos ($9.99, scores 59).
More about Filament
This site sampled 388 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
98% start to 5% rarestNo 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
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 17:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A very difficult, very long puzzle game, with tons of secrets. Well worth the buy.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is one of the most difficult puzzle games I've ever played. It is also one of the longest puzzle games I've ever played, with a large number of levels. Yet, with patience and determination I was able to finish the game without the use of a walkthrough and even without the use of the hint system. There was only one level where I did use a walkthrough and that was because I thought I had stumbled upon a bug. I...
the game itself is fun. the setting is fun and cartoony with the art style and the music, the building of the story seems well paced and interesting, and the mechanic for the puzzles is original. The pacing of these levels is what is causing me to not recommend this game. The difficulty seems to go from 0 - 100 in the span of 5 levels causing me to not only get a friend to try to help solve it but resulting in...
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Cite this score
Filament scores 64/100 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/1137350/filamentReviews 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.