A Highland Song
Skip · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$17.99Skip
On its price record
$16.87Fair
- Length
- 3.8h 26.5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.73/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 688 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.87 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3 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
Moira McKinnon is running away. A wild adventure through the Scottish Highlands, with open platforming and dynamic storytelling, maps and music. From the creators of Heaven's Vault and 80 Days.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon HD 7850, 2+ Gb of vram, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 22 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Shelter 2 ($24.99, scores 42).
More about A Highland Song
Of the 370 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 107 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.8 hours. Doing everything runs 27, 7.0 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
94% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 08:12 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
gameplay is easy to get used too, somehow in jumping with the music i never get it right. My up button doesn't behave. But i could make it easier in settings so i could still enjoy it! And now i obsess of getting 100% completion if i can. Wonderfully addictive game. Very much recommend.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
yo this game is actually so fun and nice, gives a real sense of adventure and the time limit is done really well. goated imho
I really want to like this game but it's just not fun. It's not fun as a platformer and it's not fun as a cozy game. Mechanics feel tacked on, and the whole game lacks too much depth or cohesion to be a gem.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
A Highland Song scores 49/100 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/1240060/a-highland-songReviews 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.