Osmos
Fair · Short indie · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 1,450
- Critics
- 80 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.18 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.7h
- To 100%
- 10.3h 1.8x the story
- Finish
- 3% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 11
Price and sales
- Sales
- 48 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2015
- Sale every
- 84d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 11% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 48 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 9 percent. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! X ($1.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats OneShift ($4.99, scores 42).
More about Osmos
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 287 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 217 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
What players say
Great atmosphere, good music, gameplay in some levels mid Relax, lay back, enjoy the game and maybe punch a hole in your monitor
2 more reviews
Somehow, 17 years later, I'm drawn back to this game. A mixture of anxiety and calmness. A little bit of luck and planning, and the game isn't too terribly difficult. Excellent ambient soundtrack and just a good way to spend a few hours forgetting about the world around you.
Purchased for 2,45 euros. You can make this game either extremely relaxing or extremely challenging. On the one end you turn off the in-game music (fitting but very limited) and provide your own tracklist, and let the smallest movements guide you towards veeery slowly becoming the biggest. Or don't and just float around endlessly forever while vibing to some good music. On the other end you turn off the in-game...
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About the game
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 3D graphics card with OpenGL support. Minimum resolution 800x600, 31 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Osmos scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/29180/osmosReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.