The Bridge

The Bridge

Fair · Strategy · 2013

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$9.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$2.9970% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$2.85/hr
Reviews▼
87% of 4,357
Critics
73 players 14 higher
Genre rank
Top 6% Strategy

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 13% off ($8.66) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3.5h
To 100%
7.6h 2.2x the story
Achievements
20

Price and sales

Sales
118 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 August 2014
Sale every
35d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.99 at GOGall-time low $0.50 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
29% of its genre
Better reviewed
91% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

62% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 118 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Its score sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Creaks ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Munin ($4.99, scores 63).

More about The Bridge

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, 2.2 times as long.

At 3.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 9 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.85/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 446 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

A mind-bending puzzle that requires you to change the way you thnk about space to beat.
thainenRecommendedafter 16h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
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...
masnevetsRecommendedafter 12hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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The Bridge scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/204240/the-bridge
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Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+14
Critics73
Players87
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 4,357 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperTy Taylor
PublisherThe Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
GenreStrategy
Released2013
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements20