Phoenix Springs
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.4h 6.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.41/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 277 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.33 or less.
Buy now or wait
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
Lose yourself in Phoenix Springs – a modern point-and-click set in a mysterious neo-noir world. It begins with an investigation: find your brother Leo. You already know where it ends.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, DX12 capable GPUs., 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
22 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math The Roottrees are Dead ($19.99, scores 71) and Blacksad: Under the Skin ($19.99, scores 53) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Phoenix Springs
This site sampled 227 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
88% start to 2% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 02:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A game I purchased, sat on for a good several years like I've done with albums by my favorite musicians anticipating something with expectations that are too great, too afraid to open the box and become disappointed. It met them handedly.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
beautiful. a barely-lucid dream. difficult to explain and impossible to spoil. found myself crying and can't articulate why. an aside, but it's fascinating how the same games/pieces/""content""/etc gets fed to the same audience via the same monopolized digital storefront so you get complaints of "ambiguity" and the dreaded "artsy" by people who wouldn't last a day in the rain
Art is excellent. Has voice acting of thoughts of main character, although it's not my favorite voice. The puzzles are annoying and not always making logical sense. It's more guess and check if you're right too often. It wastes your time. I like the vibe, but I'll just watch a walkthrough instead.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Phoenix Springs scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1973310/phoenix-springsReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.