Sokobond

Sokobond

Fair · Short indie · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
7.1h 8.7h to 100%
Value
$2.11/hr
Reviews
93% of 715 positive
It needs 7% off ($13.92) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.92 or less.

Buy now or wait

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
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$2.11/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 319 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

Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 85 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Patrick's Parabox ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Osmos ($9.99, scores 59).

More about Sokobond

The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.

This site sampled 319 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 127 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

77% start to 5% 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 06:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

tryin to find more educational games that I can recommend to schools / students - this one's banger
Tasty LemonRecommendedafter 3.2hAug 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Came from that Eye Sigil ARG, i believe im not the only one. also i like chemistry so peak game.
adiat.Recommendedafter 8.2hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Sokobond scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/290260/sokobond
Embed the live badge

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+11
Critics82
Players93
Metacritic critics · 715 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAlan Hazelden
PublisherDraknek & Friends
GenreShort indie
Released2014
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8