Sayonara Wild Hearts

Sayonara Wild Hearts

Fair · Action · 2019

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$12.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$6.4950% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$9.99/hr
ReviewsS
97% of 8,964
Genre rank
Top 5% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 67% off ($4.24) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $10.25.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.49 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
1.3h
To 100%
9.3h 7.2x the story
Achievements
24

Price and sales

Sales
58 on record
Typical cut
40% off
Steam low
$6.49 November 2025
Sale every
40d last October 2026
Lowest now $5.39 at Fanaticalall-time low $5.04 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
19% of its genre
Better reviewed
99% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

16% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 58 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. $4.24 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.

Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BARRIER X ($2.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).

More about Sayonara Wild Hearts

8 of the 528 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,996 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 4,251 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 53 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1.3 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 7.2 times the campaign.

At 1.3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 17 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 96% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Cost per hour$9.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds8 of 528 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Pretty game with good music, yet very short. Very enjoyable on high refresh rate monitors, but there are some bugs that require you to lower your refresh rate, such as slide. Finished the game in 1hour and then dropped trying to do the achievements. The achievement list is just boring IMHO.
darlingRecommendedafter 2.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
Fell in love on PS and continue to love it on steam! Truly a beautiful game to experience. Visuals and soundtrack are perfect for one player or to trade off with friends at the afters. 10/10
Stinky WizzleteatsRecommendedafter 3.5h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
i sword fight my ex gf in a dennys parking lot in all seriousness this is one of my favorite little games i've ever been recommended. i've been playing it during my workouts, the songs are in my head when i wake up, i think about it all the time. great tunes, simple yet fun-to-master stages, incredible aesthetic.
MogatratRecommendedafter 29hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 3870 or Intel HD Graphics 630, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Sayonara Wild Hearts scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1122720/sayonara-wild-hearts
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Reviews 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.

Details

DeveloperSimogo
PublisherAnnapurna Interactive
GenreAction
Released2019
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24