Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$7.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.50/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 153,119
- Critics
- 88 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12h
- To 100%
- 18.3h 1.5x the story
- Finish
- 35% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 56 on record
- Typical cut
- 67% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 September 2026
- Sale every
- 36d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,749 now
- Recent reviews
- 95% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to 35% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 67 percent, about 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $19.35, a level the record has reached 50 times.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hollow Knight ($14.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure ($19.99, scores 42).
More about Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Critics scored it 88. Players sit 8 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 5,502 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
153,119 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I really should learn to reserve judgement until after I've fully finished playing a game. When I started playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps, I struggled getting into it because I kept thinking about Blind Forest and lamenting the fact that all the skills I'd come to love were taken away. Some made sense narratively, but even stuff like double jumping is something Ori had to re-learn all over again. And while I...
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I avoided this game since release because I didn't want to cry. Well, I'm older now. And these are older tears.
I had already finished Ori and the Will of the Wisps on my Nintendo Switch, but hey, who can resist a 90% discount on such a fascinating game?!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Play the critically acclaimed masterpiece. Embark on a new journey in a vast, exotic world where you’ll encounter towering enemies and challenging puzzles on your quest to unravel Ori’s destiny.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Ori and the Will of the Wisps scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1057090/ori-and-the-will-of-the-wispsReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.