Gentoo Rescue
BANGER · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $19.99.
- Length
- 30h 40h to 100%
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 100% of 250 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $14.79 (26% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 76 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
About the game
A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Radeon 530, or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 14 discounts in the 17 months tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hexcells Infinite ($4.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Paquerette Down the Bunburrows ($11.99, scores 71).
The math says it holds its tier up to $37.71.
More about Gentoo Rescue
Steam's global achievement data puts 39 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 235 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
99% start to 39% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Beautifully crafted puzzle game. Many of the puzzles are optional and each has an interesting, unique idea at its core -- this plus the very tastefully implemented hint system make this a great choice for casual puzzlers. But for the puzzle sickos like myself there is also lots to love: countless interactions to discover, super difficult secret levels to find, and great end-game meta puzzle elements.
2 more reviews
Highly, highly recommended. I play a lot of Sokoban puzzlers, and Gentoo has earned its place right next to Stephen, Monster, and Baba as one of the greats. (Depending on your definition, sliding ice puzzles may not be "true" Sokobans, but they're definitely a "close cousin") Gentoo Rescue introduces new items and mechanics very organically, and has a great "discovery" system tracking and describing how the...
Absolutely delicious puzzles!! Sort of reminds me of Puddle Knights due to the cheesy and simple aesthetic that undersells the top-tier puzzle quality. I'd always known that ice puzzles had potential i'd always known it
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Gentoo Rescue scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2830480/gentoo-rescueReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.