Monsters of Little Haven
Fair · Narrative · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h 2.8h to 100%
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 444 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.50 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
At the heart of the action are a twelve-year-old Kenneth and his younger sister Esme, children of the Murphy family, who hit the trail of a mysterious monster following series of entangled events.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 61 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. While We Wait Here ($4.99, scores 75) outscores it, and so does Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Monsters of Little Haven
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 258 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
0.8 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
40% start to 33% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 08:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Monsters of Little Haven, developed and published by Missing Calm, is a charming and heartwarming narrative-driven adventure that explores themes of friendship, acceptance, and the complexities of childhood imagination. Set in a small, quiet town called Little Haven, the game invites players into a beautifully crafted world filled with quirky characters and gentle storytelling. At its core, it's an exploration of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A short, atmospheric visual novel with a haunting style and a dark, almost fable-like story. It slowly pulls you into a strange world where children face a horror that's not quite a "monster" in the literal sense. More than anything, it's a story about fear, family, guilt, and choices. The black-and-white sketch-style art adds to the unsettling tone. The soundtrack is minimal, but it fits the mood well. The game is...
a lot of bugs. not sure if it's intentional but can't skip the credits afaik and after the credits, it doesn't take me back to the main menu, just sits on the ending screen so I have to alt+f4 to reopen. sometimes near the end of the game, a scene will repeat then abruptly skip to the credits so I can't see the full ending. 100%ing isn't optimized so boo. also the fading in and out of black after every click is sooo...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Monsters of Little Haven scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1101930/monsters-of-little-havenReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.