FEZ
Worth it · Short indie · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.82.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in December 2017. 51 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 27 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $5.82, a level the record has reached 50 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, VVVVVV ($4.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data says about 16 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 2 of the 581 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 2,111 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.
The drop-off
82% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
37 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
when i get mopey I play this game to just sit and listen to the starting town's music and stare at its sky. it brings me a ton of comfort. thank u fez
Fez is a casual platformer with a unique perspective-shifting puzzle mechanic and 100+ levels to explore and find secrets in. The platforming puzzles are fairly easy but never repetive, and the world feels fun to explore . The non-platforming puzzles (rooms with secrets/riddles) range in difficulty from fairly easy, to satisfyingly difficult to nobody-on-the-internet-has-solved-it-yet. The good thing is, you need to...
Totally worth the money. Really well-thought-out level design, it's amazing to see an indie team put into this cozy puzzle game the complexity of a ♥♥♥ Metroid game level-design-wise combined with such unique and genius gameplay mechanics as they did. It's kind of like my relationship with Franz Liszt; I probably won't spend another second on it, but I recognize such exquisite craftsmanship when I see it.
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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FEZ scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/224760/fezThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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