A Dance of Fire and Ice
BANGER · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Length
- 3.3h
- Value
- $1.82/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel Graphics 4000, 2GB VRAM, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.69, set in January 2019. 44 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Super Hexagon ($2.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Geometry Dash ($4.99, scores 89).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $21.56. It costs $5.99.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 5,818 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.3 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 6.6 times as long.
Still 1.9K concurrent players, 7 years in.
At 3.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
77% start to 2% 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
1,870 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
My fingers are breaking and so is my brain, please help me please great game tho
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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A Dance of Fire and Ice scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/977950/a-dance-of-fire-and-iceThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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