Duet
Worth it · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.1h 15.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 853 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.93 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (60% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 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
About the game
Elegant and minimal, Duet asks players simply to navigate two orbiting spheres past an increasingly complex maze of falling obstacles. As the difficulty increases, the tension mounts, and a peculiar narrative unfolds.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 28 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 9 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 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, VVVVVV ($1.24, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP RUNNER ($9.99, scores 64).
More about Duet
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.1 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 7.2 times as long.
At 2.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
68% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 20:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Spun left. Spun right. Panicked. Finished it in 30 minutes. Minimal, stressful, and way harder than it looks. Short game, fast pain.
1 more review
had this on mobile glad to see it on steam such a good keep brain busy game no thoughts just shapes and paint splatter much paint lots of splatter very satisfying
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Duet scores 84/100 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/292600/duetReviews 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.