American Arcadia
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$6.37BANGER
- Length
- 6.6h
- Value
- $3.03/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050ti or equivalent, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
American Arcadia is a cinematic puzzle game that combines a 2.5D platformer and first-person game to tell the tale of a thrilling escape. Experience the extraordinary story of Trevor, an average man escaping from the world's most popular reality tv show.
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
It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was April 2026. 31 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. $6.37 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DISTRAINT 2 ($8.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats VirtuaVerse ($14.99, scores 53).
Of the 300 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 118 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
91% start to 9% 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
I am just the biggest fan of everything this developer makes! Call of the Sea was one of the best, most emotional game I've played, and it was so nice to have a sequel in Call of the Elder Gods. This was a different vibe, for sure. However, I still had a lot of fun playing it! I will be following to see what they create next!
Игра нормальная, сюжет правда какой-то детский, все очень удобно сходится, хотя если глубже разбирать ничего сойтись не должно было. Сам гемплей приятный, довольно медетативный и не бросающий никаких вызовов. Загадки простые. Были моменты где я минут на 5 застревал, но это из-за невнимательности и того, что иногда не понимаешь что какие-то препятствия можно передвигать. Начало игры интересное, захватывает внимание...
American Arcadia takes The Truman Show, adds buttons, puzzles, and a healthy dose of paranoia, then turns it into an indie thriller you definitely don't want to miss.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
American Arcadia scores 64/100 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/1249040/american-arcadiaReviews 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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