Back to Bed
Fair · Action · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Core HD Graphics 3000/4000, NVIDIA 8800 GT, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or better, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A surreal 3D puzzle game where you guide Bob the sleepwalker safely back to bed. Move objects, avoid hazards, and solve dreamlike isometric puzzles as Bob’s subconscious guardian.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.59. That was July 2020. It has been discounted 122 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Figment 2: Creed Valley ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Figment ($19.99, scores 48).
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 1.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 324 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.4 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 2.7 times as long.
The drop-off
31% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 1.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Back to Bed scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/308040/back-to-bedThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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