Celeste
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.43.
- Length
- 8.3h
- Value
- $2.41/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 1.2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2024. It has been discounted 65 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $12.43, a level the record has reached 53 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, SANABI ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 63).
Critics scored it 88. Players sit 9 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,802 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 5,714 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.3 hours; clearing it takes 39, which is 4.7 times the campaign.
Still 1.2K concurrent players, 8 years in.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
71% start to 8% 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
1,174 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
Celeste is one of the best platformers ever made, hands down. The game asks a lot of the player in terms of precise platforming and timing, but it is ALWAYS rooting for you. Celeste wants you to win, and it's part of why it feels so good to play. The game "cheats" in favor of the player in a variety of ways - if you're a pixel off of a jump, the game gives you the landing anyway. Enemies universally have slightly...
Celeste is a game that makes boys question their gender identity, and makes men question their gamer cred. tl;dr - Conditional recommendation If you like ball-bustingly difficult precision platformers where the main emotion you feel is catharsis instead of fun, or you want to experience a story about overcoming depression & anxiety weaved seamlessly into its mechanics, get Celeste. If you don't like, or are not in...
getting over it with bennett foddy and this game were life changing for me, really think i took steps to better my life and my life slowly got better after playing these games thoroughly recommend playing this blind and try not to get stuck at ch 5 like i did when i first played 😭
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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Celeste scores 76/100 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/504230/celesteThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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