They Bleed Pixels
Fair · Action · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offFair
- Cost per hourA
- $1.15/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 2,558
- Critics
- 74 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.7h
- To 100%
- 17.4h 2.0x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 150
Price and sales
- Sales
- 116 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 June 2014
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
86% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 116 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Rusted Moss ($19.99, scores 57).
More about They Bleed Pixels
74 from critics against 83 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 261 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 426 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
8.7 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 8 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
What players say
This is such a uniquely frustrating experience. I enjoy the game- I had fun playing through casually despite it's faults and wanted to work through the rest of the achievements, but that's where I found seething rage I haven't had over a game in... maybe ever? The enemies, The basic enemy type stretchy arms guy, He's basically built to only attack when it's inconvenient. Placement ranges from pointless to incredibly...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
They Bleed Pixels is a fiendishly difficult action platformer inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and classic horror.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL 3.0+, 2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
They Bleed Pixels scores 59/100 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/211260/they-bleed-pixelsReviews 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.