Moving story about anxiety and perseverance
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“something that actually connected with my own struggles with depression and anxiety”
Steam review · 15.9 h played ↗
Celeste
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 97%Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd.2018Precision Platformer · Platformer · 2D Platformer
The verdict
A brilliant, tough precision platformer with tight controls, a moving story and a great soundtrack. Skip it if repeated deaths and pixel-perfect timing frustrate you.
Great for
Players who love hard precision platforming, emotional stories and great music, and enjoy persistence
Main risk
Punishing difficulty, especially Farewell and C-sides, can turn into frustration if you dislike trial and error
What players love
Excellent soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The music ROCKS I listen to the OST so much it's on my playlists.”
Steam review · 41 h played ↗
Challenging but fair, very rewarding
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“It's an exquisite example of how to make a game extremely hard, but also have that difficulty consistently feel fair.”
Steam review · 13.6 h played ↗
Beautiful pixel art and atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“Beautiful pixel art.”
Steam review · 41 h played ↗
Tight, responsive controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“No other game has come close to matching the snappy responsive controls that this game has.”
Steam review · 1059.7 h played ↗
Huge replayability, B/C-sides and mods
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“There is also a whole ton of content, including the main 8 chapters, the b-sides and c-sides for those chapters (the harder remixed versions) and the DLC, farewell”
Steam review · 110.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Too punishing, trial-and-error frustration
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“I don't care for slamming my head into a wall 1000 times trying to hit these precision jumps”
Steam review · 2.2 h played ↗
Poor analog stick and keyboard controls/rebinding
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Keyboard controls feel bad, clunky, I would almost go as far as to say even untested”
Steam review · 2.6 h played ↗
Weak or unengaging story
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“The story is horrible and is so on the nose with everything that it's just agonizing to read.”
Steam review · 5.8 h played ↗
Farewell and C-side difficulty spike
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“The difficulty spike is just beyond unreasonable. The final chapter was basically designed to challenge speed runners instead of the average player.”
Steam review · 40.3 h played ↗
Inconsistent hitboxes and luck-based sections
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“the hitboxes and pure hatred I feel to the late 2 chapters are unmatched”
Steam review · 23.6 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support1200 MB
Minimum
OSWindows 7 or newer
ProcessorIntel Core i3 M380
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsIntel HD 4000
Storage1200 MB available space
OSWindows 7 or newer
ProcessorIntel Core i3 M380
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsIntel HD 4000
Storage1200 MB available space
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