They Breathe
Fair · Action · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.98/hr
- Reviews▼
- 84% of 1,307
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.5h
- To 100%
- 3.3h 6.6x the story
- Finish
- 21% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 8
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $0.49 June 2017
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 82% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 89% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
24% start to 21% 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
The value story
The value story
62 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Penumbra Overture ($9.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats CASE: Animatronics ($9.99, scores 54).
More about They Breathe
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 223 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 801 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 82 percent of everything written about it.
0.5 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.6 times the campaign.
At 0.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (50% off). Predictions like this were right 92% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 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
Thought it was about survival turned out it's about breathing in space - now I fall asleep with my mouth open trying to inhale silence.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
They Breathe is a short journey into the depths of a forest filled with water. As you swim deeper, it's up to you to figure out the rules of an insidious ecosystem where nothing is as it first seems, and where everyone is after the same precious resource – oxygen!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
They Breathe scores 58/100 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/294140/they-breatheReviews 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.