Bulb Boy
Fair · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $4.50/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000. Runs on Windows, macOS.
One gloomy night, Bulb Boy wakes suddenly from a frightening nightmare to discover that evil has overshadowed the Bulbhouse. His family has disappeared and there are horrid monsters lurking in the shadows. Gather the courage and use his glass head to save everything he loves.
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
October 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $0.89. It has been discounted 58 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 84 percent of its genre. On the same math Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) and The Supper (free, scores 89) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
1 of the 261 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 177 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
41% start to 10% 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
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 13:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Bulb Boy scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/390290/bulb-boyReviews 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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