Bonfire Peaks

Bonfire Peaks

Worth it · Short indie · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99.

Length
11.4h 33.6h to 100%
Value
$1.75/hr
Reviews
93% of 350 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$1.75/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 283 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

Set your belongings on fire on a beautiful voxel art puzzle island.
Description from the Steam store page.
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% 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

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...
DaSHRecommendedafter 26hAug 2026Read on Steam
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...
corygwilliamsRecommendedafter 4.4hJul 2026Read on Steam
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...
dizztroyahNot recommendedafter 1.2hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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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-peaks
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+12
Critics81
Players93
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 350 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCorey Martin
PublisherDraknek & Friends
GenreShort indie
Released2021
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements41