Rosewater
Worth it · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 12.5h 21h to 100%
- Value
- $1.60/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 416 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 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
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About the game
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, rebels, visionaries, eccentrics, and many more friends and foes on your quest for fame and riches.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1280x720 32-bit color, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 17 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 20 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Blackwell Legacy ($4.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($7.99, scores 44).
More about Rosewater
82 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 330 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.
The drop-off
53% start to 35% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 19, 00:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Rosewater is a richly written point-and-click adventure that successfully blends the traditions of classic adventure games with the atmosphere of a Western road story. Set in the alternate 19th-century world previously established in Lamplight City, it follows freelance writer Harley Leger after she heads west in search of a new beginning. Her arrival in the seemingly uneventful border town of Rosewater initially...
2 more reviews
The third game from Grundislav Games has grown on me slowly, until becoming my favorite, which speaks volumes of the game since I really really liked Lamplight City and I started kind of confused with Rosewater. Mostly I think it has to do with the game structure, as the narrative is set on three different acts that play quite differently and Act 1 feels unaimed until you reach Act 2, or at least that was my...
Excellent point and click adventure game set in 1840s/50s America. Compelling story and no moon logic puzzles so far.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Rosewater scores 71/100 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/1226670/rosewaterReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.