OxU
BANGER · Short indie · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 2.7h 3.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 241 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 10 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
Minimalistic 3d puzzle with portals, cubes and lasers.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 620, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 26 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! Z ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Zup! F ($1.99, scores 88).
$4.04 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about OxU
This site sampled 236 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
98% start to 50% 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
What players say
I actually liked this one more than the zup games, it's pretty chill and the cube challenges really make you think differently.
2 more reviews
OxU has awesome graphics and some tricky puzzles. I've added it to my favourite games list!
It's a fun little puzzle game where you basically attempt to complete energy pathways by flipping and switching tiles (some tiles can be moved but not rotated, some can be rotated but not moved, some can be neither and some can be both) which introduces many new elements as the game progresses (portals, lasers, etc.), but unfortunately wears out its welcome by being just a wee bit too long (and the last twenty or so...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
OxU scores 90/100 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/2097180/oxuReviews 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.