Vane
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 3h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $6.66/hr
- Reviews
- 55% of 628 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1748 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
In a ruined desert, a strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child, setting off a chain of events that will reshape the world itself.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 750 / Radeon R7 260X, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 250 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Figment ($3.99, scores 66) and Perfect Vermin (free, scores 80) both outscore it.
More about Vane
63 on Metacritic, 55 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
43% start to 7% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 02:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a criminally under-played and under-reviewed game. It might have some minor flaws but the art direction and atmosphere seriously make up for it. I was extremely impressed by it in both an artistic and technical capacity, and I could definitely see how much passion the team put into this gem. If you're a fun of beautiful atmospheric narrative experiences where every single frame could be a piece of concept...
1 more review
I'll be honest, this was one of the most frustrating games I've ever played. The controls are a mess, & the game itself is deliberately obtuse, but I do think it's worth playing if you have the time! There's a moment you start flying around the desert at the very beginning & realize you can just... Go anywhere??? & not only go anywhere, but everywhere you go is an actual place you can go & feels like it was part of...
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Cite this score
Vane scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1063310/vaneReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.