The Bridge
Fair · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was August 2014. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 116 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LIMBO ($12.49, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Munin ($4.99, scores 61).
73 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 446 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,197 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.5 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.1 times as long.
At 3.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
62% 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
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The concept is fascinating: you explore Escher-style drawings in all their non-Euclidean glory in order to get keys, avoid danger, and reach the exit door. To match it, the art style is top-notch and the puzzles have a lot of care put into their design. On the other hand, some of the late game puzzles were downright infuriating. In earlier levels, something not working usually meant to try a different idea. For some...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Bridge scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204240/the-bridgeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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