Wayfinder
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Length
- 25.1h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 60% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 78% over the last 30 days against 60% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT / Nvidia GTX 1650 Super, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become a Wayfinder, and unlock their powers as you choose your path and playstyle while pushing back a hostile force that has overtaken your world. A Co-Op ARPG where you directly shape and customize the endless adventures you go on with friends, because Wayfinders are stronger together.
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
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in August 2026. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. 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.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Diablo® IV ($12.49, scores 15) beats it on value, while it beats Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ($3.99, scores 2).
Players rate it 60 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 78 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. 28 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 253 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 28 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 5,299 reviews written there were positive, against 60 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
25.1 hours to finish it, 59 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
84% start to 2% 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
64 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
Been having fun playing through with some friends and solo. I wish all online games would do this when they decide to close shop. I love the ability to keep playing with no microtransactions or loss of capabilities.
Such a shame this game did not work out-the game play is very fun. The story is kind of stupid but the game itself is fun
so played this for a few hours, tried several of the other wayfinders and overall the gameplay is fine, but you can tell that the game was heavily based on originally being an mmo first rather than being an ARPG. a lot of the rewards you get from quests are cosmetics, emotes, crafting and upgrading materials. it plays fine for the most part but if you were lookin for a dungeon explorer, horde fighter, tower defense...
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Wayfinder scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1171690/wayfinderThe 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 Jul 30, price as of Sep 24.
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