Umurangi Generation

Umurangi Generation

Fair · Strategy · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.5h
Value
$6.00/hr
Reviews
91% positive
It needs 28% off ($10.84) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
4.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$6.00
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
91%
1,223 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
84
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Umurangi Generation is a first person photography game in the shitty future. Set in Tauranga Aotearoa off the back of an impending crisis you are a courier for the Tauranga Express. Throughout the game you will unlock a variety of lenses and equipment.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$6.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length2.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds9 of 401 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in April 2024. It has been discounted 53 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tiny Glade ($11.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats PLAYNE : The Meditation Game ($14.99, scores 60).

This site sampled 401 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 206 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

82% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Few things liberate to create more than complete catastrophe. Portuguese Men o' War took my land, but forgot my lens.
OrderlyRecommendedafter 2.7h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
greater than the sum of its parts generally. an incredible sense of style whether it's visually or with the music, wonderful world building (everything feels incredibly dense/lived in), and so forth a bit bogged down by gameplay being universally rough. as an overall package this works so well that i'm willing to look past some of my difficulties elsewhere. encountered quite a bit of funkiness in my time with this...
thehotrockRecommendedafter 4.0hJul 2026Read on Steam
I love the idea of this game, it just didn't do anything for me in execution. Diorama-like environmental storytelling with Pokemon Snap-y gameplay sounds great, but I didn't think the tasks they gave you were very interesting (not to mention the jankiness of it all) and the world/story just never effected or surprised me like I wanted it to. The vibes are almost there, there are a few cool stylistic touches and some...
ColinNot recommendedafter 2.4h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Umurangi Generation scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1223500/umurangi-generation
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+7
Critics
84
Players
91
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 1,223 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperORIGAME DIGITAL
PublisherORIGAME DIGITAL
GenreStrategy
Released2020
Achievements23