Making*Lovers
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $29.99, a BANGER if it drops to $13.08.
- Length
- 11.8h 32.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.54/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 662 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.08 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
Making*Lovers A story about the way love can bloom after dating begins. The focus in Making*Lovers is on the things that come after a relationship's beginning. With "start dating, then fall in love" as the concept, you will work towards the moment when love truly blooms.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB or above, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 46 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $13.08. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
More about Making*Lovers
Of the 320 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 11.8 hours; clearing it takes 33, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
80% start to 23% 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
What players say
Making Lovers is incredibly blatant wish fulfillment fantasy, but I'm sure you're already well aware of that, and that's probably an upside if you're interested in these sorts of games. While it does forgo any semblance of a plot or any character depth or development, and its comedy is very hit or miss, it sort of makes up for it by having some disgustingly cute romantic moments. I absolutely live for that kind of...
2 more reviews
Making Lovers is easily the best moege out there. It basically takes what appeals in moege and excels at that, and especially nails the romance and comedy parts. I don't remember how many times I have burst out laughing with the absurd jokes and banter that this game brings to me. The romance is pretty much straightforward, unlike other moege, Making Lovers isn't wasting your time in the long common route with a...
I am only 5 hours in and I'm having so much fun The characters are just immediately funny and interesting. There's a lot of personality everywhere and overall everything is just gorgeous to look at. Every bit of it is just enjoyable. It doesn't need any built up it's just a great time right off the bat.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Making*Lovers scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1200720/making-loversReviews 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.