Bat to the Heavens
BANGER · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 19.5h 46h to 100%
- Value
- $0.77/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 431 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Can't run or jump? But with a bat, you can surpass any obstacle! Climb to the heavens, learn techniques, and discover secrets across the valley in this challenging puzzle - execution - momentum game!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2000 hamster brains, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 11 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Leap Year ($3.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71).
More about Bat to the Heavens
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 19.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 319 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 19.5 hours; clearing it takes 46, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
51% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 7 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 06:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
One of the most demanding games I've played, but that frustration is counter-balanced by an incredibly expressive toolkit that is rewarding like no other. There are so many hidden elements to this game that it disguises from you at first, and their continued evolution inside the level design is really compelling. Far better than it's popularity (or lack of it) suggests, and an easy recommend if you want a game to...
2 more reviews
I thoroughly enjoyed this game. The unique movement mechanics make for a very fun experience, which I haven't really had in any other platformer I've played. The puzzles aren't really the usual ones in game like this. It's much more about finding your own way around, which can sometimes feel like cheesing or breaking the game, or not being the intended way. That only really makes it more fun for me (some of the...
It's like Celeste if it broke your kneecaps but in exchange gave you wavedashing in every direction
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bat to the Heavens scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3044100/bat-to-the-heavensReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.