The Legend of Bum-Bo
Fair · Roguelike · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 67% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$4.6469% off
- Cost per hour
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews▼
- 81% of 5,948
- Critics
- 73 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 38% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.64 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 8.8h
- To 100%
- 37.8h 4.3x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 48
Price and sales
- Sales
- 21 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $4.49 October 2026
- Sale every
- 99d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 22 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 52% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 3% 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
21 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 38 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Roguebook ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Overdungeon ($14.99, scores 51).
More about The Legend of Bum-Bo
73 from critics against 81 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 757 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 756 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.49 (70% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
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
There is this running joke between my friends that one of them did the VA for Bum-bo. We always remind him and tell him how good he did. Hopefully he reads this and starts doing VA again, he was such a good Bum-bo.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
x-- 8 / 10 --x Ridiculously addicitive. I'd argue that this is a lot hard than the Isaac games, but to the point where it could almost be unfair. Scale wise it's at least doable because there's only a fraction of the content to unlock.
theres some attempt to allow synergies but the game is easy without them and either its hard to make or not effective enough basically it doesn't have roguelike sauce the strongest thing is mostly speed or the funny buzz directional spells really it just seems like it could have been worked on more to make the game more interesting
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A puzzle based deck building rogue-like prequel to The Binding of Isaac... Made of cardboard!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Discreet video card, Shader Model 3+, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Legend of Bum-Bo scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1148650/the-legend-of-bum-boReviews 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 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.