Little Inferno
Fair · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $5.93, only fair at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $4.41/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Throw your toys into your fire, and play with them as they burn. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall. From the creators of World of Goo and Human Resource Machine.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. 74 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.93. The record reaches that level 56 times.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Human Resource Machine ($14.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats The Stanley Parable ($14.99, scores 62).
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 27-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 465 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 678 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
29% start to 4% 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
Players
22 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Little Inferno is a game that in some sense hides very little from you. You have a fireplace and a bunch of things to burn, godspeed Guy Montag. It's catharsis in its purest form: context falls away, value and narrative become irrelevant since everything turns into the same ash. Simple and satisfying. But then again, is it? Little Inferno may present you with a seemingly shallow face and if you want that's all there...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Little Inferno scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221260/little-infernoThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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