Bonbon

Bonbon

Skip · Narrative · 2017

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 24, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
0.5h 0.9h to 100%
Value
$7.98/hr
Reviews
72% of 268 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Holding it back
Value$7.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews72% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 135 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

A thirty-minute childhood-horror walking-sim about toys and a giant rat. A short, single-sitting experience.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650 or equivalent, 604 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

97 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 68 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Paratopic ($4.99, scores 28) and Draugen ($19.99, scores 29) both outscore it.

More about Bonbon

Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

63% start to 15% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Bonbon, developed by Aetheric Games and published by Pixeljam, is a short experimental horror experience that distinguishes itself almost entirely through perspective. Instead of placing you in the role of a capable protagonist, it casts you as a toddler navigating a seemingly ordinary home that gradually reveals itself to be anything but safe or familiar. This shift in scale and agency is not just a stylistic...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 13hMar 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Bonbon scores 24/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/734120/bonbon
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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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAetheric Games
PublisherPixeljam
GenreNarrative
Released2017
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements6