Bottle: Pilgrim Redux

Bottle: Pilgrim Redux

Fair · Narrative · 2017

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.6h 1.9h to 100%
Value
$2.49/hr
Reviews
80% of 264 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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
Engagement18% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.49/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 79% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 147 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

Bottle: Pilgrim is a story of loss, regret and redemption, which reminds us that while we cannot change the things we have done, we can always learn from our mistakes.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 780 or AMD RADEON RX 470, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

June 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 31 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Unfinished Swan ($3.74, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Nephise Begins ($0.99, scores 11).

More about Bottle: Pilgrim Redux

Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The drop-off

27% start to 18% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 04:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

A walking simulator with 4 normal levels, 3 sub levels 20 secrets collectables. Good for achievement hunters with 50 % discount
S.T.A.R.S Leon S. K.Recommendedafter 1.4h52 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. The atmosphere is really clean and the story feels personal without trying too hard. It's slow, but not boring if you're into chill games. The voice acting adds a lot to the experience. I wouldn't play it in one sitting, but it definitely sticks with you after.
siiimoooRecommendedafter 3.0hJan 2026Read on Steam
I really wanted to like this game. The visuals are gorgeous, the story *should* be compelling, and I was hoping for a Firewatch-esque kind of emotional reaction, based on what I knew of the game going in. Unfortunately, the actor doing the narration is very flat and dull, and despite such a tragic storyline, the way it's delivered fails to bring out any sort of emotional response. I'm the kind of person who cries at...
GoofyGemNot recommendedafter 2.0h29 found this helpfulRead 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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Bottle: Pilgrim Redux scores 53/100 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/735350/bottle-pilgrim-redux
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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 15. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTonguç Bodur
PublisherTonguç Bodur
GenreNarrative
Released2017
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24