OVIVO

OVIVO

Fair · Action · 2017

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.8h 3h to 100%
Value
$5.55/hr
Reviews
90% of 468 positive
It needs 38% off ($6.19) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.19 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 7 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

Raising the score
Engagement9% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$5.55/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 171 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

About the game

OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

57 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LIMBO ($12.49, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Lorn's Lure ($14.99, scores 60).

More about OVIVO

Critics scored it 71. Players sit 19 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

47% start to 9% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

What players say

Beautiful. No other words can describe it. Marvel of sound and sight, beauty in simplicity, complexity in design. Mostly the game is an art showcase, but traversing the artpieces has meaning of its own. Abstract in most ways, there is nothing to compare this game to. Some platforming was lovingly challenging, not too difficult, but enough to not breeze through without issues. The music, perfectly complementing the...
GanmueRecommendedafter 2.8hNov 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
It's very different to other puzzle games you've played, it's a unique take with it's aesthetics and movement, a bit tedious at times but stupidly simple which makes it fun
LyraRecommendedafter 3.0hApr 2025Read on Steam
Sometimes, you just need a game to help you relax and escape the world, and OVIVO is exactly that. It's simple, yet incredibly fascinating, pulling you into a calming, hypnotic experience with its enchanting art and atmospheric music. At first, I thought the gameplay would be too monotonous, but I was completely wrong. There's much more to discover as the game progresses, and it's far more engaging than I initially...
SJNW | CertamenRecommendedafter 4.0hFeb 2025Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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OVIVO scores 61/100 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/597700/ovivo
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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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+19
Critics71
Players90
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 468 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIzHard
PublisherIzHard
GenreAction
Released2017
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31