Wanderstop

Wanderstop

Fair · Strategy · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a BANGER price before.

Today

$24.99Fair

On its price record

$8.31BANGER

Length
10.2h
Value
$2.45/hr
Reviews
93% positive
It needs 67% off ($8.31) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $22.08.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
10.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
12.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.45
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
3,250 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
80
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, 2GB or AMD Radeon R7 370, 2GB or Intel Arc A310, 4GB, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

From the creator of The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide comes Wanderstop, a narrative-centric cozy game about change and tea.
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
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$2.45/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length10 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ 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
Refunds13 of 515 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

November 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. 13 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.31. No recorded sale has reached it yet.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Snacko ($24.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).

80 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Of the 515 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 171 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

At 10.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

58% start to 22% 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

Players

15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 10:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Rather than wearing you down, this game charges you up. It took a minute to adjust to the slower pace and non-time sensitive demands, with a handbook so you didn't have to memorize anything if you didn't want to. But the more I played, the more I understood why games like this are needed. As a working adult, this allows your mind to slow down from the every day chaos, and engages you with a meaningful story. Voice...
cinnalemonRecommendedafter 15h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
beautiful artwork and game. lovely little story with an eccentric (yet endearing) ensemble. i laughed, i cried, i brewed. be kinder to yourself and have a cup of tea! though i selfishly wish there was an endless tea brewing mode- it's very relaxing.
lottieRecommendedafter 13h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Feeling overwhelmed with whatever's going on in your life? Then, you need to play this game. Burnout isn't something to be taken lightly. It's another relaxing game I turned to when I needed a break from other games that were more challenging. It's just me running a cozy tea shop with magical vibes and cute animals. Also, as an avid tea drinker, I very much enjoyed discovering the different types of teas to brew in...
Emi-DidactRecommendedafter 15hSep 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Wanderstop scores 66/100 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/1299460/wanderstop
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+13
Critics
80
Players
93
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 3,250 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIvy Road
PublisherAnnapurna Interactive
GenreStrategy
Released2025
Achievements11