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Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

Developer
Bennett Foddy
Publisher
Bennett Foddy
Franchise
—
Release date
Dec 6, 2017
Store page updated
Oct 28, 2022
Price
$7.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

83.5/ 100

Based on 363 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🙂 Mostly Positive 80% of 321
All time 😄 Very Positive 82% of 82,539
“addictively replayable, climbed 1272 times over six years”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.13
Difficulty +1.32 · How hard it is, how the challenge ramps, and whether it feels fair
“brutal honesty and lack of handholding creates grace through mastery” (91)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+3.13
World +3.76 · Lore, atmosphere, and how immersive the setting is
“narration makes it very relaxing, comfort game” (29)

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+1.99
Replayability +3.46 · Reasons to play again — runs, randomness, New Game+
“high replayability with 50+ playthroughs showing lasting engagement” (13)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+2.02
Audio +2.28 · Music, sound effects, and voice acting

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
-0.43

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Playing together +1.25 · Fun of playing with friends, teammates, or rivals

🔒 2 more indicators

Pricing & Fairness
-1.00

Not enough data — only 1% of reviews mention this.

Pricing -1.00 · Whether the price, DLC and microtransactions are reasonable, and how much paying gives you an edge

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Support
-1.44

Not enough data — only 2% of reviews mention this.

Stability -1.75 · Crashes, freezes, save loss, and game-breaking bugs

🔒 2 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
70%80%90%100%
Dec 2017Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 318 reviews, peak 18/day
01020
Aug 21Sep 18

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 356 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English56%
  • Russian13%
  • Chinese13%
  • Japanese3%
  • Spanish3%
  • Korean3%
  • Other9%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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