Recursed
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 7h 23.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.14/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 670 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.81 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- 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
About the game
A puzzle game where the rooms are items and the items are rooms. Get to the goal by moving, rearranging and duplicating rooms and altering the structure of the world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 102 MB of memory, OpenGL 3.1, 82 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 52 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58) and ibb & obb ($11.99, scores 73), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Recursed
This site sampled 316 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
At 7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
70% start to 4% rarestNo 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 Sep 26, 19:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very interesting concept . A challenging and engaging game where you get to understand about the abstract concept of recursion.
2 more reviews
Is it graphically impressive? No. Does the gamefeel leave something to be desired? Sure. Is it badly in need of an undo button? Absolutely! But this game more than anything I can think of (other than grad school math) gives me the feeling of struggling to wrap your mind around the hopelessly abstract until it really starts to solidify and you find yourself catching glimmers of understanding leaving you saying "damn...
Fun, but tricky, puzzle game. Can hurt your head if you are not a programmer (and even if you are) but satisfying to complete.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Recursed scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/497780/recursedReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.