Manifold Garden
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$6.31BANGER
- Length
- 4.7h
- Value
- $4.25/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 460, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Rediscover gravity and explore an Escher-esque world of impossible architecture. Witness infinity in first-person and master its rules to solve physics-defying puzzles. Cultivate a garden to open new paths forward, where an eternal expanse awaits.
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
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2024. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.31, a level the record has reached 19 times.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Antichamber ($19.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Viewfinder ($24.99, scores 56).
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 10-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 659 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer 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, 1,000 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 977 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
88% start to 30% 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
12 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Manifold Garden had the potential to be one of the best puzzle games I've ever seen and instead is mostly one of the most impressive tech demos. The actual game is nominally a puzzle game with exploring vast empty tesseracts and trying to figure out what the goal supplants a structured puzzle experience. Which isn't to say that there aren't actual puzzles. Half solve themselves and the other half are really really...
Absolute masterpiece!! The puzzles and art are incredibly impressive. Simple controls, beautiful music, and an amazing atmosphere. One of the most unique and memorable games I've played. Worth every penny!
A cautious recommend. Dont get me wrong this game is a solid 6/10, however there's one main problem that this game REALLY suffers from: Unintuitiveness. Its VERY easy to get lost/disoriented if you go off the beaten path way. The puzzles start to drag around mid-late game and if you dont have gaming sense for this genre, you are going to be stuck on them for hours (God help you when you get to those piece of ####...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Manifold Garden scores 64/100 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/473950/manifold-gardenReviews 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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