A Monster's Expedition
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.00.
- Length
- 9h
- Value
- $2.22/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card, Intel HD Graphics 3000 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!
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
The value story
April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 52 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.00. The record reaches that level 16 times.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Haven Park ($8.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats gravilon ($2.99, scores 5).
This site sampled 384 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 3.7 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
79% start to 4% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 00:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Great puzzle game with a pretty big map and lots of puzzles. Also you can make friends a long the way if you can reach them.
It is an atmospheric low stakes puzzle adventure. The ambient sounds are soothing and the puzzles are challenging without being frustrating. The ability to try things and reset makes it easy to learn the mechanics but the straightforwared push is not always the way forward.
Super relaxing, but gets fairly repetitive. Though there are some small variations to the main puzzle mechanic, it doesn't seem to try to take the idea too far and doesn't offer a visible sense of mechanical progression. Still, it's the perfect game to play for half an hour in between other tasks just to unwind after a long day.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A Monster's Expedition scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1052990/a-monster-s-expeditionReviews 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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