Proverbs
BANGER · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.69, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 66%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 24.8h
- Value
- $0.11/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 66% ($3.05)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 80% ($1.79)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Graphics 4400 or better, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Proverbs is a picross/minesweeper hybrid featuring a single ENORMOUS puzzle, inspired by Bruegel the Elder's 1559 painting "Netherlandish Proverbs"
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
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.79. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 20 in the 2 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.69 at 70 percent off still sits 50 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Coloring Pixels (free, scores 90) and Hidden Through Time ($7.99, scores 71) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $30.83. It costs $2.69.
Of the 350 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
75% start to 57% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
53 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 08:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I love Minesweeper. I love Picross. I love jigsaw puzzles. This game scratched all those itches at once.
play at your own risk: this is disgustingly addictive for all of the minesweeper freaks, you'll be eating good
I was in a trance, I didn't blink or breathe for the entire time I played this game. I couldn't stop weird medieval minesweeper. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Proverbs scores 95/100 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/3083300/proverbsReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 2.
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