Zen Bound 2
Worth it · Short indie · 2010
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 4.2h 18h to 100%
- Value
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 587 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Wrap your way to bliss in Zen Bound 2, the unique down-tempo indie game! This is a different gaming experience: an opportunity to slow down, zone out and focus on a task that’s challenging but not stressful, a set of gentle puzzles for the mind and fingers to solve.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 47 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 80 percent off still sits 34 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tiny Lands ($6.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Spirit of the North ($2.99, scores 67).
More about Zen Bound 2
Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 158 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4.2 hours; clearing it takes 18, which is 4.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
66% start to 1% 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
I am a 55 year old biker and trucker father, and probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game for from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Only 14 years after its release did I find out that the same people who made Turbo Dismount made this simple puzzle game too. Pretty neat.
If you're trying to get full completion this game is Infuriating! There's a nail you wrap the rope around to end the level, and you can accidentally do this with no option to undo it. Full completion is not trivial at all either, you have to get 99% paint on an object, which can often be VERY DIFFICULT. This game is not zen, not by a long shot.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zen Bound 2 scores 68/100 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/61600/zen-bound-2Reviews 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.