Kairo
Skip · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.56/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 1,755
- Critics
- 76 players 2 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 43% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.2h
- To 100%
- 4h 1.3x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 11
Price and sales
- Sales
- 73 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.74 January 2015
- Sale every
- 59d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 42% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
32% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 73 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Manifold Garden ($19.99, scores 64) and NaissanceE (free, scores 64) both outscore it.
More about Kairo
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 217 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 510 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
So simple yet so weirdly beautiful, somehow ethereal. Puzzles and maze navigation are a bit maddening at times
1 more review
I like games that do things a little differently. This one certainly fits that description.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Enter the lost world of Kairo. Explore vast abandoned monuments. Bring strange and ancient machinery back to life. Slowly uncover the true purpose of Kairo and fulfil a great destiny.Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 3.0, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Kairo scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/233230/kairoReviews 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.