COCOON
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$24.99Fair
On its price record
$5.38BANGER
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950, 2 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
From Jeppe Carlsen, the lead gameplay designer of LIMBO and INSIDE — COCOON takes you on an adventure across worlds within worlds. Master world-leaping mechanics and solve intricate puzzles to unravel a cosmic mystery.
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
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. It has been discounted 29 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.38. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Spirit and the Mouse ($6.39, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Spirit of the North 2 ($29.99, scores 54).
9 of the 721 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,005 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 444 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
At 5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
85% start to 21% rarestNo 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
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Cocoon is a majestic puzzle game by the Ex-Devs of Limbo and Inside. And you can totally see that DNA throughout the game. With its wonderful sci-fi minimalist art style, the experience will have you fully focused on solving rewarding puzzles, that are about easy to average difficulty I would say, but very satisfying nevertheless. I 100% the achievements in about 4.5-5 hours or so, which is short, but I think that...
Most of the praise for this game is a classic case of "This is the first puzzle game I've ever played" syndrome, in addition to people being hypnotized by high production values. The big "waow mind-bending puzzle vidya, the dev must have been on MUSHROOMS to invent this lmao" moment is just... recursion? You can put orbs inside other orbs, and the puzzles go how you expect. It's "high-concept" (not really, it's only...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
COCOON scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1497440/cocoonReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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