Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Worth it · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $17.17.
- Length
- 12h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 55 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 67 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $17.17, a level the record has reached 49 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats The Swapper ($14.99, scores 70).
Critics scored it 88. Players sit 9 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 12-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 5,240 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
6 years after release it still had 697 people in it at once.
The drop-off
82% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 12-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
697 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Ori and the Will of the Wisps is a 2D Metroidvania; a platform game emphasizing exploration, collecting items and upgrades, and backtracking to previously inaccessible areas. The player controls the titular Ori, a white guardian spirit. As Ori, players must jump, climb, glide, and swim between various platforms to solve intricate puzzles. Gameplay unfolds in the form of a Metroidvania, with new abilities and...
played through the entire game together with my son, what a treat. great visuals, gameplay, performance, audio. thank you devs for this wholesome adventure
Yes, just buy this when it's on sale. It is more challenging than Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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-wispsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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