LIT: Bend the Light
Worth it · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 1.7h 5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.11/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 322 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 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
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About the game
Light, darkness and remarkable puzzles! Bend the light to your will in this award winning physics-based puzzle game. Feel like a renaissance engineer, build your own solutions to light puzzles, feel your brain grow and all of that within the beautiful and mysterious world of LIT.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 620, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 19 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, World of Goo ($4.94, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Osmos ($9.99, scores 59).
More about LIT: Bend the Light
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 258 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.7 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 2.9 times as long.
The drop-off
82% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 05:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a very good puzzle game. The progression introduces new elements and unlike many puzzlers the levels can have more than one solution. Easy enough to finish the levels although completion takes many tries. I got it for 80% off and it was well worth it.
2 more reviews
Easy recommendation, i feel this one respected my time, so many puzzle games overextend so much, this is not the case , for me its the perfect balance of time/mechanics with pleasant visuals, the solutions are not too obtuse, there are multiple solutions for most of the puzzles.
Fun little puzzler where we have to figure out different ways to guide a laser to a target using various mirrors and lenses. But there are actually more possible solutions than the count required to 100% the game. The puzzles aren't particularly difficult, but they are fun to tinker with, though the difficulty is inconsistent between levels. The ones that required the most tinkering for me were those where we had to...
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Cite this score
LIT: Bend the Light scores 69/100 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/1190160/lit-bend-the-lightReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.