The Impossible Game
Fair · Short indie · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $1.50/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 support, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The super-addictive and very, very hard platform game finally arrives on Steam - it's quite possibly the world's hardest game! As well as five classic Impossible Game levels, this desktop version includes an EXCLUSIVE new Level Editor.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in June 2015. 5 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 34 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Geometry Dash ($4.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats BARRIER X ($2.99, scores 65).
Critics scored it 64. Players sit 20 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
4 of the 391 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 599 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 48 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 2.5 times as long.
At 2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
72% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
A classic for a reason. Short & sweet. If you HAVEN'T played GD I'd highly recommend playing this first if you have the money for both IG & GD (if not just get GD), this is basically the prequel game. And for those of you who have played GD, it's definitely worth it to go back and revisit (or just visit) this classic game. You're likely going to get between 1-4 hours of content depending on what you've achieved in...
As a kid back in the PSP days, when I first saw the game, I didn't buy it because the title said Impossible and I thought why buy when it's impossible XD. Jokes aside this is one of the most replay-able game. I've been playing it since PSP days and now on Steam PC. I've finished all the achievements for this game and here is my two dollar 99 cents on the game: Sound : Different sound tracks for different levels and...
God this game is bad. How can a game with such little going on run so poorly. multiple crashes and constant jitter.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Impossible Game scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251630/the-impossible-gameReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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