Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.72.
- Length
- 7.7h
- Value
- $1.95/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon X600 XT or GeForce 6800 GT, 3.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A classic platform with a twist: A dynamic soundtrack and funny lyrics that sings the player's actions and responds to what is happening during the adventure.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.74, set in March 2026. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 37 in the 11 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $10.72. The record reaches that level 20 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Will You Snail? ($6.59, scores 99) beats it on value, while it beats Creaks ($19.99, scores 67).
Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 354 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 181 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 179 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.7 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
74% start to 21% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 00:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Plataforma musical em português e inglês. Traduzir rimas sem perder o contexto é difícil, mas fizeram isso muito bem! O narrador canta descrevendo o caminho e o que você faz. O jogo é fácil, difícil é explorar cada canto por itens e melhoras. E pode repetir fases pra abrir passagens que não podia antes. // Musical platformer in Portuguese and English. Translating rhymes without losing context is hard, but they did...
Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition is one of the most distinctive indie platformers of the past decade. Developed by the Brazilian studio Dumativa in collaboration with the Castro Brothers, it takes the familiar 2D platforming formula and transforms it through a fully dynamic musical narration. Instead of background music merely setting the mood, the hero continuously sings about everything happening on...
A pretty good platformer with an excellent musical soundtrack... in Portuguese. It's pretty meh in English until you reach the postgame (epilogue / Songs for the Dead / Samba for a Hero) part, but even so, I found it very enjoyable. For most of the game, the difficulty isn't so much difficulty as finding all of the hidden collectibles, but thankfully the game doesn't lock things behind 100% collection, so it's quite...
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Cite this score
Songs for a Hero - Definitive Edition scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/389170/songs-for-a-hero-definitive-editionReviews 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 1.
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