Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube

Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube

Worth it · RPG · 2014

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99.

Length
9.7h 17.2h to 100%
Value
$1.03/hr
Reviews
88% of 724 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.03/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 116 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

About the game

A serene first-person puzzle platformer set across strikingly beautiful worlds. Place and remove cubes to solve handcrafted puzzles, discover hidden secrets, and lose yourself in an atmosphere unlike anything else. Includes a full level editor and Steam Workshop support.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible; integrated or very low budget cards may not work, 2.9 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

83 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Perfect Vermin (free, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($1.99, scores 35).

More about Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube

Critics scored it 72. Players sit 16 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 141 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

36% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube, developed by Liquid Flower and published by Digital Tribe, is a first-person puzzle-platformer that leans heavily into atmosphere, exploration, and spatial reasoning rather than narrative or fast-paced action. It places players in a surreal world of floating geometric structures suspended in an endless sky, where the goal is not simply to reach an endpoint, but to understand and manipulate...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13hMar 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Journey through a mysterious puzzle feels like a rocket without control but with bright lights and funny traps. Hope my cube doesn t get lost in space like my keys.
🍀 WinteraidRecommendedafter 17hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/252550/qbeh-1-the-atlas-cube
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+16
Critics72
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 724 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperLiquid Flower
PublisherDigital Tribe
GenreRPG
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements17