Zoombinis
Fair · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$11.99Fair
On its price record
$4.35BANGER
- Length
- 2.9h
- Value
- $4.13/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB VRAM Direct X 9 Compliant Video Card (Intel HD chipsets supported), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
In the entertaining and educational game Zoombinis, players guide the little blue creatures through fun and increasingly challenging puzzles on their way to a new home.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.79, set in May 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 7 in the 3 years tracked, about 11 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.35. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Scribblenauts Unlimited ($19.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats One Hand Clapping ($14.99, scores 49).
Of the 336 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 210 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
2.9 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 7.4 times the campaign.
Players
29 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 22:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A very mid remaster of a surprisingly well made game. For folks who didn't grow up with the game (how did you get here?): The game is a sequence of logic puzzles targeting elementary age children built around deductions based on different zoombini features (eyes, nose, feet, and hair). At the "Not So Easy" beginner level, the puzzles are simple and accomplishable by children of nearly any age, but they become...
One of the greatest children's learning games of all time back from the golden age of child learning.
A fun puzzle game for anyone who likes to use their brain. Very fun, but also a little challenging for some.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Zoombinis scores 67/100 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/397430/zoombinisReviews 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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