de Blob
Fair · Action · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8h 21.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 435 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.92 or less.
Buy now or wait
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
The evil I.N.K.T. Corporation has declared 'Color is a Crime!' and leeched Chroma City of all its beauty and interest. The race to rescue Chroma City has just begun, and only de Blob can save the world from a black-and-white future with his unique abilities to color the world back to life.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 310 with 1 GB VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
68 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, AtmaSphere ($0.75, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats Pumpkin Jack ($29.99, scores 53).
More about de Blob
Of the 285 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 8 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 2.7 times as long.
The drop-off
65% start to 3% 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
What players say
This game was already really great on the Wii! Being able to play it with an actual controller and on a modern resolution and framerate improves the experience so much! Every level takes about 60 minutes to beat to 100%. You can of course beat the levels quicker by progressing when the game prompts you to, but I don't see the fun in that. Especially out of a lens of someone who wants to complete the levels, the game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Imperfect but underrated I have a history with De Blob - I played De Blob 2 on PS3 as a kid, and realising it and its predecessor were on Steam I got them both and played through them. They make for a sadly forgotten and underrated duology in the 3D platformer genre. Focussing on De Blob 1, its main selling point is really the soundtrack, and the sense of progression you get as you restore lifeless greyscale...
Super easy to trigger points of no return with no warnings that will screw up your run and cause you to waste over an hour of your time.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
de Blob scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/532320/de-blobReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.