1bitHeart
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 6.1h
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($1.19)
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated graphics. Windows only.
Welcome to 1bitHeart―the latest title from Alicemare and LiEat developer △○□× (Miwashiba). In this unique and endearing adventure game, take on the role of Nanashi, a lonely, agoraphobic boy, as you solve a slew of mysteries around town while also making friends.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.19. That was December 2022. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard ($4.99, scores 75) and Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood ($14.99, scores 72).
This site sampled 348 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 130 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
74% start to 12% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 16:54 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I was on the fence about this one. The characters are overdesigned, there's way too many of them (50! 50 characters!), movement was tedious, playing Tetris for Bits was tedious, figuring out who wanted what and whether I was getting anywhere with them was tedious, and I accidentally reloaded and saved over my game on two separate occasions. Then I found the Dash key (A) and that made the movement more tolerable, and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
1bitHeart scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/618720/1bitheartReviews 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 2.
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