Khimera: Puzzle Island

Khimera: Puzzle Island

BANGER · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $4.99.

Length
14.7h
Value
$0.34/hr
Reviews
98% positive
Cite this score
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
14.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
24.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.34
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
98%
342 reviews, as of Aug 3
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, any DirectX 8 compatible CPU or GPU, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.

She's back just in time to do all the puzzles in your Sunday paper! It's a Khimera Nonogram adventure!
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Value$0.34/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length15 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 305 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

The value story

December 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.49. 24 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, Röki ($19.99, scores 64) and Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($7.99, scores 44) both come in lower.

The math says it holds its tier up to $15.27, and you are being asked for $4.99.

None of the 305 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026.

The drop-off

83% start to 34% 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Khimera: Puzzle Island scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1217830/khimera-puzzle-island
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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 Aug 3, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

IndieAdventureCasualPuzzleFemale ProtagonistPixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackSingleplayer
Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSuits & Sandals
PublisherSuits & Sandals
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Achievements24