The Flame in the Flood
Skip · Roguelike · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX11 compatible video card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.
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
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 90 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Roguelands ($9.99, scores 52) and The Binding of Isaac ($4.99, scores 87) both outscore it.
This site sampled 531 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 599 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 50, 5.7 times as much.
The drop-off
26% start to 2% 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
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A short and sweet survival game with a fun soundtrack and unique premise. Worth a try!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Flame in the Flood scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/318600/the-flame-in-the-floodThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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