Baba Is You
Worth it · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $11.60.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.00/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 24,782
- Critics
- 87 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.60 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.5h
- To 100%
- 46h 6.1x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 18
Price and sales
- Sales
- 24 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $10.49 June 2019
- Sale every
- 101d last May 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 229 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
53% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
24 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $11.60 BANGER line 19 times.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, I hate this game ($1.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Paquerette Down the Bunburrows ($11.99, scores 71).
More about Baba Is You
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 11 points higher at 98 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 9 of the 647 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 691 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 466 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 2,270 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7.5 hours. Doing everything runs 46, 6.1 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 157 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Baba Is You is a brilliant game, truly. Although it involves very few pieces, and few moves, the complexity of these simple interactions continues to surprise me. The solution to a level is usually fairly simple, but understanding how things must work together in order to find that solution can require hours of thought. One aspect of Baba I found surprising and unique: the levels are simple enough that if you get...
1 more review, not recommended
i mean it starts well, looks really cute and soundtrack is lovely and it's a nice little puzzler... for like two worlds, and then good game design falls off a cliff. glitching your way into sharing a grid square with some text, and then breaking what should be an unbreakable chain that includes that text, is apparently an intentional mechanic and something you're supposed to figure out without a walkthrough? k i...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATI Radeon X1300/NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT/Intel HD 3000 or better, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Baba Is You scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/736260/baba-is-youReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.