Bonfire Peaks
Worth it · Short indie · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 11.4h 33.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 350 positive
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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
Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 46 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Monster's Expedition ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Manifold Garden ($19.99, scores 64).
More about Bonfire Peaks
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 283 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026.
The main story runs 11.4 hours. Doing everything runs 34, 2.9 times as long.
At 11.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
75% start to 2% 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
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 28, 22:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
If you like these kinds of games, why haven't you gotten this yet? IDK why I waited so long either. Just beat it w/ 108 puzzles solved (could have been fewer, I'm curious what the minimum is now knowing I solved many optional ones on the way, though I skipped waaay more). So many puzzles. So much time spent just staring at daunting a level w/ no clue. You just have to give it a try or 20 or 200. Some I'll almost...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great puzzle game in the spirit of Steven's Sausage Roll. Clear inspiration here with the box sticking out in front of you and fire involved in the puzzle goal. The game still stands on its own here with some unique mechanics that surprise me periodically. The progression of levels give a clear intro to each new mechanic or new way to use existing pieces, and then gets harder. Definitely a bunch of levels I've had...
I was enjoying the puzzles but then had to give up because of how frustrating the controls were. Maybe it's a skill issue on my part given all the good reviews. I just expect that in a 3D environment 'up' is forward, 'down' is back, and left and right match. Simple. In this game, direction is (very counterintuitively) relative to the camera so I spent more time fighting my brain on how to move the character than I...
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Cite this score
Bonfire Peaks scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1147890/bonfire-peaksReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.