Sayonara Wild Hearts
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $4.25, only fair at $12.99.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $9.99/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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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.
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a dreamy arcade game about riding motorcycles, skateboarding, dance battling, shooting lasers, wielding swords, and breaking hearts at 200 mph.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.49, set in November 2025. It has been discounted 57 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. $4.25 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Melody's Escape ($9.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien ($14.99, scores 54).
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 3,211 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,736 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.
The drop-off
16% start to 4% 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
About 5 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
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.
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
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.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sayonara Wild Hearts scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1122720/sayonara-wild-heartsReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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