A Blind Legend

A Blind Legend

Skip · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 39, under the fair line, at $0.76.

Length
2.3h 5.5h to 100%
Value
$0.33/hr
Reviews
74% of 350 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

Skip$6.99

Today

−89%Skip
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $3.04/hr
Holding it back
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 123 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A Blind Legend is the first-ever action-adventure game without video – where ears replace eyes! Discover the original, innovative sensory experience of binaural 3D sound.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader model 2.0+, 451 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 82 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.76 at 89 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator ($14.99, scores 38) and Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones ($14.99, scores 38).

More about A Blind Legend

Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 137 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.

2.3 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.

At 2.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

41% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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
1 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 11:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

as others have said, its a great and very interesting concept to work with, especially kind of stepping into the part of someone who is visually impaired and "seeing" the world through their eyes and what impacts that has. but as much as i love the concept, it gets very repetitive after the first few fights. i have not finished it since i died multiple times from one fight and cannot properly figure out when to hit...
inchen_heNot recommendedafter 1.3hMar 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
So last week I was thinking to myself that there are too many "roguelikes" and "soulslikes" and other derivative crap and how I want more unique experiences from my games. Then I thought, what about a game with no video output? I did a search and found a handful including this one. It was on sale for $0.76, so I gave it a shot. The concept is surely unique, but I feel like the execution was poor. The core gameplay...
connickNot recommendedafter 3.8hDec 2025Read on Steam
I was diagnosed with very aggressive glaucoma over the last two years. I'm now completely blind in my left eye and have very little vision in my right. I've been a gamer since I was a kid, so it's been tough realizing that many of the games I love aren't as easy for me to play anymore. That's why a game like A Blind Legend is amazing. I highly recommend it to anyone who is blind or visually impaired-and even if...
💙Sonic💙Recommendedafter 9.8hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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A Blind Legend scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/437530/a-blind-legend
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDowino
PublisherPlug In Digital
GenreAction
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10