FEZ
Worth it · Short indie · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 66% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.67/hr
- ReviewsS
- 93% of 16,347
- Critics
- 91 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6h
- To 100%
- 11.7h 1.9x the story
- Finish
- 17% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 December 2017
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 22 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 11% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 17% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
52 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $5.80, a level the record has reached 51 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 3 percent. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, MANDAGON (free, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58).
More about FEZ
Steam's global achievement data puts about 17 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 2 of the 589 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 2,117 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 31 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
If you liked Tunic, Animal Well and other Knowledge based games, this is one of the pioneers. When I heard that I thought this would be a bit inferior to the newer titles and with less interesting mechanics but really is not. Well well designed
1 more review
This is a great game and I wish the developer good health and hope someday he returns to game development.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Gomez is a 2D creature living in a 2D world. Or is he? When the existence of a mysterious 3rd dimension is revealed to him, Gomez is sent out on a journey that will take him to the very end of time and space. Use your ability to navigate 3D structures from 4 distinct classic 2D perspectives.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
FEZ scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/224760/fezReviews 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 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.