LIMBO
Worth it · Action · 2011
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $12.49, a BANGER if it drops to $5.22.
- Length
- 3.6h
- Value
- $3.47/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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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.
Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. 89 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.22. The record reaches that level 88 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games closest to it, INSIDE ($24.99, scores 65) and The Bridge ($9.99, scores 66) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data says about 3 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3.6-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 5,118 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.
The drop-off
47% start to 3% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 3.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
82 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
20% of the time im smarter than albert epstein the other 80% i feel like a dumbahh and i need to watch tutorials on yt. 10/10 would reccomend
An eerie puzzle game, with a lot of puzzles. A simplistic and well executed design from puzzles to "enemy" interactions as well as environment and how it integrates with the puzzles. The puzzles comes in a wide variety of challenges, ranging from left and right navigation to: up up, down down, left, right, left, right, B A and then some to just solve the puzzle and proceed, and some with a tedious timing. The world...
This game is a puzzle platformer that has clever puzzles but no story or soundtrack. It overstays its welcome. The whole machinery section feels like the same old thing with a few new gimmicks, like gravity. And for me, the game freezes in the last chapter just before the end, so I can't even finish it. This issue has been known for years but hasn't been fixed. Would I recommend it at full price? No. If you're a...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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LIMBO scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/48000/limboThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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