The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

BANGER · Roguelike · 2014

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$14.99BANGER

Typical seasonal cut

$7.4950% offBANGER

Cost per hour
$2.68/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 466,386
Genre rank
Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
5.6h
To 100%
393.3h 70.2x the story
Finish
18% reach the ending
Achievements
641

Price and sales

Sales
67 on record
Typical cut
35% off
Steam low
$1.49 June 2026
Sale every
52d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
36,360 now
Recent reviews
94% 30 days
Cheaper than
27% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

85% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 67 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Never Split the Party (free, scores 44) and The Binding of Isaac ($4.99, scores 87) both come in lower.

More about The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

1 of the 300 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written in October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 7,576 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 5.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 393, 70 times as much.

466,386 reviews stand behind that percentage.

At 5.6 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 $11.24 (25% 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach7.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
For context
Refunds1 of 300 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Game where you must as a naked 5 years old child cry on poops ad beat up your mother with your tears. basically the best game ever made.
Eve ~Recommendedafter 1031h167 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
I love the saac! The fun, addicting gameplay along with the sheer amount of content makes for endless replayability. I'm sure you'll get your money's worth with this game and all its DLCs.
catch cosmosRecommendedafter 48h25 found this helpfulRead on Steam
very nice poops on the floor very delicious and taste like mr beast chocolate bar 1000/10
ImbadthanksRecommendedafter 65hOct 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac’s form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of mysterious creatures, discover secrets and fight his way to safety.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Discreet video card, 451 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/250900/the-binding-of-isaac-rebirth
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperNicalis, Inc.
PublisherNicalis, Inc.
GenreRoguelike
Released2014
Players7.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements641