LIMBO

LIMBO

Worth it · Action · 2011

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$12.49Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$1.2490% offBANGER

Cost per hour▼
$3.47/hr
ReviewsS
92% of 62,449
Critics
88 players 4 higher
Genre rank
Top 3% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 59% off ($5.13) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.24 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
3.6h
To 100%
6.8h 1.9x the story
Achievements
13

Price and sales

Sales
91 on record
Typical cut
80% off
Steam low
$0.99 December 2022
Sale every
37d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
88 now
Recent reviews
87% 30 days
Cheaper than
21% of its genre
Better reviewed
98% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

47% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

91 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.13. The record reaches that level 90 times.

Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games closest to it, INSIDE ($24.99, scores 65) and The Bridge ($9.99, scores 66) both come in lower.

More about LIMBO

5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 5,127 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 5 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.47/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds5 of 800 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

What players say

Straight off the bat, LIMBO pushes you into the perspective of a scared little boy stuck in a dark, gloomy forest all alone. You're not told to do anything, just feel . While there aren't any instructions, the environment makes it pretty clear what the mechanics are and how the game is intended to be. The story's also something you kind of realise as you go, rather than understand from some dialogues or other...
strongbatonRecommendedafter 3.4h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
LIMBO is fun and dark. It feels especially smooth with a controller, the movement and platforming feel much more natural and satisfying
iamxoleRecommendedafter 4.2h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
First half is great, it looks beautiful, second half is just trail and error frustration.
Bill Cosby(Vacated Judgment)Not recommendedafter 5.3h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Integrated graphics from 2020 or later. Shader Model 3.0 required, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Cite this score

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LIMBO scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/48000/limbo
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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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+4
Critics88
Players92
Metacritic critics · 62,449 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperPlaydead
PublisherPlaydead
GenreAction
Released2011
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13