The Flame in the Flood
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Cost per hour
- $1.74/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 7,309
- Critics
- 73 players 3 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 58% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 8.6h
- To 100%
- 49.9h 5.8x the story
- Achievements
- 36
Price and sales
- Sales
- 92 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.49 December 2025
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 27% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 37% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
26% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 92 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Roguelands ($9.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Phoning Home (free, scores 24).
More about The Flame in the Flood
This site sampled 534 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 598 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.6 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 50, 5.8 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
this is my comfort game. a great cozy survival game with a stellar art style and soundtrack. it is difficult, story mode is definetly the way to go. this isn't the kind of game you sit down for long multi session playthroughs, but it is a great sit down and have a bit of fun experience. i keep coming back to this
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is gonna be some people's favorite game, and some people will bounce right off. Audiovisually, it's lovely. Coraline style poppet art, very visually distinctive, with Appalachian strumming in the background. Everything's well animated and mostly visually clear. Tbh I like this style way more than I like Don't Starve's sepia Edward Gorey type thing. Mechanically, this is a recipe crafter. Recipe crafters rely on...
could be a very good game but it is ridden with bugs that will make you lose your runs. have fun losing input control in the rapids during a 3 hours run lazy dev or greedy studio ?
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX11 compatible video card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
The Flame in the Flood scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/318600/the-flame-in-the-floodReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.