A=B
BANGER · Short indie · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 7.2h
- Value
- $0.69/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
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
- 30% ($3.49)
- Last discount ended
- 17 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 256 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A=B is a programming puzzle game with only one instruction: A=B, which means replacing A with B.
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
The lowest price on record is $3.49, set in May 2022. 33 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, I hate this game ($1.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Human Resource Machine ($7.49, scores 87).
The math says it holds its tier up to $40.76, and you are being asked for $4.99.
Of the 345 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 271 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
7.2 hours to finish it, 43 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
73% start to 3% 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
What players say
A cool game which can be played for free (and without excess keywords) by feeding "Markov algorithms online" query to your favorite search engine.
This is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be Turing Complete. The entire "esolang" boils down to: "Perform the first valid string replacement in a list of string replacements. Repeat until nothing in the list resolves" One loop. No ifs. And you can do a surprising amount with it. For CS nerds, the game even includes a proof of the language's turing-completeness. The game is exactly as barebones as it...
Probably one of the most interesting programming games I have ever played. Each assignment replaces the first occurrence of the term on the left with the term on the right; this allows you to create (starting from just a single command!) extremely sophisticated decision-making logic, jumps, etc. It is a much more expressive language than it might seem at first. I appreciated the ""story"", the notes on Turing...
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Cite this score
A=B scores 89/100 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/1720850/a-bReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 2.
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