Boti: Byteland Overclocked
Skip · Action · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 17, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4h 11.1h to 100%
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 69% of 521 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
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About the game
Jump, Dash, Slide! Dive into a classic 3D platformer experience with Boti: Byteland Overclocked. Explore the stylized insides of a computer as a determined data robot and save Byteland from an ominous threat. Play solo or team up with a friend in seamless co-op.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 1050Ti / Radeon graphics, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
30 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 55 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Backrooms: Escape Together ($9.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Unplagued ($7.99, scores 0).
More about Boti: Byteland Overclocked
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 2 of the 293 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 2.8 times as long.
The drop-off
62% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Went into the game with 0 expectations, but the visuals and character design got me interested in the game. Shame that's where the positives for me end with this game. Contrary to most of the reviews, I didn't experience a single crash during my time (I assume that's because the game's been patched to hell and back to be more stable), but a few other aspects of the game unfortunately didn't leave a very good...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I really wish I could recommend this game. If I could give a middling review, I would, but I gotta edge towards slightly negative on this one. Conceptually, you got a great game. You play a cute little data courier robot named Boti, accompanied by two smaller bots named One and Zero, who handle all communication in the game, since Boti is mute. Your goal is to overclock the system of the computer world you live in...
x-- 5/10 --x It disheartens me to leave a negative review, but unfotunately my experience was quite shoddy with this game. + The OST is amazing! Absolutely loved all the music + Boti is so adorable, loved him so much + The levels were big and well structured - FATAL ERROR BUG - crashed my game a total of 9 times. It even crashed at a save point, which corrupted my save file, so I had to start the game again. - I ran...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Boti: Byteland Overclocked scores 17/100 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/2161050/boti-byteland-overclockedReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.