Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $3.98/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 14 and Oct 27, at about $1.39 (30% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 82 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
- 25% ($1.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($1.39)
- Last discount ended
- 13 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A short psychological adventure about a stressed girl who wants to explore her ceiling.
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
It has never been cheaper than $1.39. That was October 2025. It has been discounted 28 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 13 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, A Date in the Park (free, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Home ($4.99, scores 17).
Steam's global achievement data puts 54 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 708 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,048 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 61 percent of everything written about it.
0.5 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
At 0.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
83% start to 54% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 08:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Looking Up I Only See A Ceiling is clearly made with a lot of passion and love, with a charming art style and an overall very nice feel to it, however it is let down by its writing style, which seems to contrast so heavily to its dark themes. Whilst in the relapse DLC it is not afraid to get into violence and gore, it goes at any cost to avoid using swear words or any other mature words that, in my...
That's just what university does to you huh. Genuniely a really nice game, with nice hand drawn visuals! I'd recommend also playing the DLC's, as you'll get most of the story out of it - especially since it isn't a lot more expensive. The "Relapse" DLC also adds some fun quick time events to the gameplay, although those aren't too difficult :)
The game has a great atmosphere, charming art style, and clear passion behind it. Its commentary on academic stress is also one of its stronger aspects. Unfortunately, the writing (especially the true ending) holds it back. After spending most of the game establishing the protagonist's anxiety, the conclusion handles those themes in a way that felt far too simplistic. The message came across as essentially "face...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling scores 67/100 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/1742930/looking-up-i-see-only-a-ceilingReviews 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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