Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$7.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.5980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.29/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 83,137
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: Refunds, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.2h
- To 100%
- 29.4h 4.7x the story
- Achievements
- 3
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.19 October 2026
- Sale every
- 43d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 174 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
50 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Jump King ($12.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats A Difficult Game About Climbing ($9.99, scores 63).
More about Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
16 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 296 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 16 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 18,725 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 6.2 hours. Doing everything runs 29, 4.7 times as long.
At 6.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 16 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
This game fills me with a rage I never knew that I had inside of me. You climb a mountain, get to a certain point, and fall. Then get back up. Then fall. Then get back up. Then you fall. Calling this game "infuriating" is a light way to put it. It's a hell, even beyond the devil's comprehension. Every time I finish a playing session of "Getting Over It" I call my therapist and cry to him on the phone, questioning my...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is such a fun game! Yes, it's frustrating, but it provides a unique challenge to the ready player. This game, unlike the others of its time, doesn't reward you for progress. Instead, it punishes you at every fall, taunting you at every mistake. There's a sense of urgency in that, that pushes you to continue, that pushes you to prove them wrong. Over time, this has become my comfort game and I would highly...
While it is a challenge and I guess can help train your mouse coordination, the controlls are whack af and the "Top of the mountain" secret, that you should get after finally reaching the top doesn't work anymore either. So I finally got to the top, finished the damn game and didn't even really get any satisfaction after all the rage that built up especially in the last part of the climb.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000 or better, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/240720/getting-over-it-with-bennett-foddyReviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.