Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca

Skip · Short indie · 2020

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$12.99Skip

On its price record

$1.61Fair

Length
0.5h 0.5h to 100%
Value
$25.98/hr
Reviews
80% of 399 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.61 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 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

Holding it back
Value$25.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 79% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 274 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

About the game

In the jungle at night, a journey awaits for you... are you ready to embrace the experience? Ayahuasca, the vine of the soul, and how to find your inner space.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070. Windows only.

The value story

27 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Hyperbolica ($12.99, scores 49) outscores it, and so does Umurangi Generation ($7.49, scores 74). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Ayahuasca

3 of the 274 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 336 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

I keep coming back to this experience over and over. I love the microscopic world, and seeing and embracing the depths of it, and the other images of decay and the past. I like the presentation of nature, the guide, and how they take care of you with the song. I sit on the floor opposite the guide. This is the kind of thing that I love VR for. (I also like Conscious Experience - A Journey Within for this, and that...
sheckeyRecommendedafter 3.4hJun 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Ayahuasca scores 28/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1212940/ayahuasca
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSmall Studio by Mac Guff
PublisherAstrea
GenreShort indie
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate