The Legend of Bum-Bo
Fair · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Discreet video card, Shader Model 3+, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.64, set in March 2024. 20 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 14 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 37 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Basement Collection ($3.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Overture ($4.99, scores 40).
73 from critics against 81 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 755 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 755 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 38, 4.3 times as much.
The drop-off
74% start to 5% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 8.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
10 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
If you're a fan of The Binding of Isaac, you'll likely get a kick out of it's prequel. Featuring pretty basic match 4 puzzle game mechanics, Bumbo's roguelike adventure may not be quite as crazy as Isaac's, but with a charming Cardboard based artstyle and some expansions on the Isaac storyline, this game is worth giving a look even if it won't keep you as busy as it's predecessor.
BUMBO GOT COIN i wish this game had more attention i feel like the throbbing domain(from Mewgenics) would really fit in this game
It loads slowly, has been left untouched for around 5 years, any time i try to play it i feel like anything i do is useless and compels me to just play something else, even Isaac (whit some challenge based exceptions) and Mewgenics arn't that eager to make you give up that fast. only good thing i will say is that i appreciate it's contribution to the story of isaac and the visuals are REALLY cool, but it's not worth...
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The Legend of Bum-Bo scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1148650/the-legend-of-bum-boThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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