Banebush
BANGER · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.89, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 70%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 1h
- Value
- $0.89/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 70% ($0.89)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 80% ($0.59)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Integrated graphics, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Banebush is a nonlinear and very red visual novel in the horror genre. Do you dare to step into a fairy tale if it turns out to be reality? 💀
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.59, set in September 2025. It has been discounted 17 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $0.89 at 70 percent off still sits 51 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 85 at list, 94 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, Bad Parenting 1: Mr. Red Face ($1.99, scores 56) and Gray Dawn ($19.99, scores 46), are both worse buys on this math.
$3.06 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $0.89.
Steam's global achievement data puts 72 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 4 of the 413 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 506 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
1 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
At 1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
90% start to 72% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 11:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
it's a really cool game iit more oppressive than Tiny Bunny, i can recommend it if you wanna a real psychological horror
6.5/10 - A beautiful atmosphere, but underused narrative potential. Banebush is far from being a bad game. I really enjoyed its art direction, atmosphere, Russian voice acting, and use of Slavic folklore. The opening immediately drew me in, and I genuinely thought the game might become one of my personal favorites. Unfortunately, after discovering all of its endings, I was left wanting more. Despite the choices on...
This is a Red Gem of a game. A solid story, Atmosphere, beautiful art and animations. If you're into Visual Novels and Horror games and are cool with the entire game being red, I say grab it!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Banebush scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2992240/banebushReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 2.
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