The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Isaac's mother hears what she believes is the voice of God, and the boy flees into a basement full of monsters. He fights back with his tears. In The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth the rooms are reshuffled every time, and items change your shots and stack with each other. Die, and the run is over.
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Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl started the first The Binding of Isaac at a weeklong game jam in 2011. The Flash prototype came together that week, and finishing the game took about three more months. Then Flash got cramped, and a second expansion had to be dropped.
That is when Nicalis offered to bring the game to consoles. McMillen's terms: rebuild it outside Flash, add content and fix the bugs. The result was Rebirth, with 16-bit art in place of the vector graphics.
The 2021 expansion Repentance took in most of the fan mod Antibirth. It also added four-player couch co-op.
Reviewers praised how much better it is than the original, though some objected to its graphic imagery. Players leave 96% positive across 424,920 reviews, and critics give it 86 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #175 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try The Binding of Isaac, the Flash original itself, and Nuclear Throne, a top-down roguelike shooter about mutants in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Major updates
[AB+|Rep(+)] Internal Item Descriptions · Sep 2025All 3
System requirements
Minimum 2 GB RAM · 449 MB✓Steam Deck VerifiedMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | XP | Windows 8 / 7 / Vista / XP |
| Processor | Core 2 Duo | 2.4 GHz Quad Core 2.0 (or higher) |
| Memory | 2 GB | 8 GB |
| Graphics | Discreet video card | Intel HD Graphics 4000 and higher, ATI Radeon HD-Series 4650 and higher, Nvidia GeForce 2xx-Series and up |
| Storage | 449 MB | 449 MB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
