Roots of Pacha
BANGER · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 31.5h
- Value
- $0.79/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 gb dedicated video card, shader model 3.0+, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The charming and relaxing stone-age farming sim where you live in a thriving community exploring the wonderful world of Pacha. Discover "ideas," domesticate crops, befriend animals, and help your village grow. Play co-op with friends or explore the early days of civilization in single-player.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $12.49, set in April 2025. 37 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Little Witch in the Woods ($19.99, scores 62) and Dinkum ($19.99, scores 86).
The math says it holds its tier up to $28.84, and you are being asked for $24.99.
This site sampled 551 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 165 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 31.5 hours. Doing everything runs 97, 3.1 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
93% start to 1% 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
Incredible game, I'd argue it's one of the best farming sims out there. The immersion in the story and characters is great, I felt really close to these characters and it was so rewarding getting to know them. The festivals are a blast, all the areas to explore and mechanics for farm animals (especially the fact that they're quite different !). It's just such a good game with so many quality of life improvements...
I absolutely loved this game. The prehistoric setting made the game feel fun and fresh. The animal breeding was interesting, and I loved getting all the variations of each animal type. The fishing, bug catching, and mining puzzles were different from the other games of this type, and I liked how there was no combat, which is a refreshing change.
It's pretty good. Though I wish they told you where flint was. Or made it drop from regular rocks.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Roots of Pacha scores 88/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1245560/roots-of-pachaReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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