Creaks

Creaks

Fair · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a BANGER price before.

Today

$19.99Fair

On its price record

$7.61BANGER

Length
6.1h
Value
$3.28/hr
Reviews
95% positive
It needs 62% off ($7.61) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $19.05.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
6.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.28
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
6,187 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible GPU, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement32% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.28/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length6.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 550 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

The value story

July 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 57 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.61. The record reaches that level 40 times.

Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Botanicula ($14.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Samorost 3 ($19.99, scores 60).

The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts 32 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 6 of the 550 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 299 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

79% start to 32% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

10 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 21:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Played this game on Apple Arcade 6 years ago, thought it was exclusive but no. Found out this game is on steam AND on sales so why not lol. This is my favourite puzzle game so far. Worth every penny even with full price.
thangthichduaRecommendedafter 5.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Fun little puzzle game, love all the hand drawn graphics and characters! Super cute and sweet
NapstablookeyYTRecommendedafter 5.1h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
A combination of hand drawn 2D animation and unforgettable mesmerizing music. Bloody brilliant. Kudos to the developers.
Game_LordRecommendedafter 12h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Creaks scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/956030/creaks
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+13
Critics
82
Players
95
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 6,187 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAmanita Design
PublisherAmanita Design
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Achievements28