Lemma

Lemma

Skip · Action · 2015

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$14.99Skip

On its price record

$8.95Fair

Length
5.8h 9.4h to 100%
Value
$2.58/hr
Reviews
82% of 250 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.95 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

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
Engagement3% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.58/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 25 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

Immersive first-person parkour in a surreal, physics-driven voxel world. Every move can modify the environment. Surfaces pop in and out of existence at will.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1 GB Video RAM, Shader Model 3, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

47 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 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 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Hot Lava ($19.99, scores 88) outscores it, and so does Lorn's Lure ($14.99, scores 60). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Lemma

The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 82 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

66% start to 3% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

Fun little platformer, but the final level design is.... bad. There is a lot of backtracking over the same areas with zero indication of where story-critical equipment is. Only once you have acquired the story-critical material do waypoints appear to guide you to the doorway of the level where the materials will be used. And then you have to figure that level out yourself. Further confounding this process are the...
hitemlowNot recommendedafter 11hFeb 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Less restrictive than similar games, e.g. Mirror's Edge or Dying Light, but also a lot more janky (in all the wrong ways). Anything can be brute-forced using platform spawning. Environments are also very boring.
koffNot recommendedafter 3.3hDec 2023Read on Steam
I played this game far more than what is displayed here. I first found this game 10 or so years ago. I bought it again to write this review: It's awesome - it's also crude and raw - but it's fun and something that I haven't seen since in gaming. The level design is organic, it doesn't feel designed by a person at all, I view this as a major strength, it is otherworldly. You are put into an environment that is alien...
Keres?Recommendedafter 1.7hDec 2022Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Lemma scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/300340/lemma
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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics73
Players82
Metacritic critics · 250 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHelvetica Scenario
PublisherHelvetica Scenario
GenreAction
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13