Heavy Burden
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $1.07.
- Length
- 1h 2.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 406 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
How does Sisyphus feel as he climbs to the top of the mountain? Tired from the weight of the stone, the scorching sun, and the steep climbs, he nevertheless continues on his way up. What awaits him there?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1060, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 31 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 88 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $1.07 at 91 percent off still sits 118 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 64 percent. On the same math DEPLOYMENT ($1.34, scores 51) and The Bridge ($2.99, scores 73) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Heavy Burden
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. Of the 357 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 172 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 46 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
58% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Heavy Burden scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2070000/heavy-burdenReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.