Lingo
BANGER · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 16.9h 56.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.59/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 829 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Lingo is a first person word puzzle game with a large, abstract world to explore. With its epiphany-driven gameplay and impossible geometry, Lingo provides a unique and nonlinear experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games closest to it, Antichamber ($19.99, scores 66) and Manifold Garden ($19.99, scores 64) both come in lower.
$15.79 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Lingo
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 5 of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to August 2026.
The main story runs 16.9 hours. Doing everything runs 57, 3.3 times as long.
The drop-off
72% start to 30% 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
- Players online
- 24 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 02:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game makes me feel like ive been impaled by a rusted metal pole directly in the left side of my brain. 10/10 would feel stupid again.
2 more reviews
if you enjoyed the witness or you like word puzzles, i recommend checking this game out. if you like the witness AND word puzzles, clear your schedule and cancel your calls and grab a notebook and lock the hell in
welcome back (if you like this game and lingo 2, then play the fangame on roblox, its called Linglox)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lingo scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1814170/lingoReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.