Insurmountable

Insurmountable

Skip · Roguelike · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 47, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Length
7.1h
Value
$3.52/hr
Reviews
79% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Oct 14 and Oct 27, at about $2.49 (90% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 52 days apart.

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
84% ($3.99)
Deepest seasonal cut
90% ($2.49)
Last discount ended
18 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
7.1h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
13.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.52
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
79%
982 reviews, as of Sep 28
Metacritic
74
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD Radeon R7 260x, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!
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

Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.52/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length7.1 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 480 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

March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 46 in the 5 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Home Behind ($5.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Shortest Trip to Earth ($25.99, scores 43).

Of the 480 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 201 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

94% start to 8% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A 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

What players say

An enjoyable resource-management roguelike! I wish there was slightly more to the story but the gameplay itself is fun. Enjoyed figuring out which character to use with their unlocked abilities for each mission, can definitely see myself trying the harder difficulty (just finished the main story on normal). Exactly my kind of game!
HeckinRobinRecommendedafter 7.5hAug 2026Read on Steam
# 🇺🇸 English # 🏔️ Every Step Matters - One of the Most Unique Survival Roguelites I've Played *Insurmountable* immediately caught my attention with its concept, but what kept me playing was its execution. Instead of treating the mountain as a simple backdrop, the game turns it into the main challenge. Every decision matters, and even a seemingly safe route can become a costly mistake if you don't carefully manage...
Tr-3|WendrexRecommendedafter 3.1hAug 2026Read on Steam
Very good little roguelike game for the price I got it at! Thoughtful, meditative, a little spooky, and intriguing. Honestly wish there were more games like this.
RainspiritRecommendedafter 11hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Insurmountable scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1385100/insurmountable
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Reviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+5
Critics
74
Players
79
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 982 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperByteRockers' Games
PublisherDaedalic Entertainment
GenreRoguelike
Released2021
Achievements29