Kalimba
Fair · Action · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.5h 40.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 686 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.46 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Jump, switch and fly your way through mind-bending subterranean puzzles in this stunning new platforming adventure from the award-winning Press Play!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD5100 (Iris) / GeForce GT630 or better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
65 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, PICO PARK ($4.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition ($9.99, scores 63).
More about Kalimba
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 9 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
2 of the 348 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 151 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.5 hours. Doing everything runs 40, 7.3 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
26% start to <1% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 01:14 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Kalimba, developed by Press Play and published by Xbox Game Studios, is a puzzle-platformer built around a deceptively simple idea that evolves into something far more demanding than it first appears. Beneath its bright colors and clean presentation lies a game that challenges coordination, spatial awareness, and timing in ways that feel both inventive and occasionally punishing. It's a tightly designed experience...
2 more reviews
A lot of people seem to be buying this game solely for co-op. If you are one of those people, don't bother. This is one of the most criminally underrated and unknown puzzle platformers out there. It is incredibly well polished, has a wonderfully creative art style, and has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. The singleplayer campaign is 30 levels that are about 3 to 5 minutes long each, and the dark void...
Incredible game design on this title. Solving the platforming puzzles feels very satisfying. The game requires quick thinking and snappy responses from the player. Two potential negatives: - My controller works fine on PC, but does not work on the Steam Link. Other players have reported controller issues and the keyboard controls are not ideal and cannot be changed. - This is a single-player game, the co-op campaign...
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Cite this score
Kalimba scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/324140/kalimbaReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.