Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $12.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.5h 25.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 201 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.87 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.29 (90% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Surf through a pulsating, underground world on platforms pulled from thin air in this challenging, psychedelic, rhythm-infused action platformer that has you defying gravity to a pumping beat.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS, 256 MB or AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT, 256 MB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
53 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Electronic Super Joy ($7.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).
More about Octahedron: Transfixed Edition
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
6.5 hours to finish it, 25 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.9 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
49% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
I still can't believe this game is almost a decade old, and that it has been 6 years since I've heard about it, and fell head over heels for it. OCTAHEDRON is, genuinely, one of the most unique games I've known about, not only visually but also in regards to the soundtrack and mechanics. Plus, it was there for some of the worst times of my life, and for my highest moments. And frankly, if it wasn't for this odd...
2 more reviews
This is probably my favourite game. The levels get progressively more challenging but never feel frustrating (to me at least), with the exception of the last two bonus levels that both cost me multiple hours. I have heard some people had to look up where to find the hidden tetrahedrons, though in my experience they were rather easy to spot (I don't know if it is different in hard mode). The gameplay mostly comes...
Great soundtrack and a good blend of puzzle- and precision-platforming. I had a lot of fun figuring out how to get the "platform use par" and "time attack" medals.
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Cite this score
Octahedron: Transfixed Edition scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/434660/octahedron-transfixed-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 30, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.