Goodbye Volcano High

Goodbye Volcano High

Skip · Narrative · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 49, under the fair line, at $29.99.

Length
6.6h
Value
$4.54/hr
Reviews
89% positive
It needs 68% off ($9.45) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
6.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
6.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.54
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
1,869 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4GB VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Goodbye Volcano High is a cinematic narrative adventure about love, change, and the end of the world. Guide Fang through their final year of high school as they try to make things right before time is up.
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
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$4.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length6.6 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
Refunds5 of 468 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

The lowest price on record is $14.99, set in June 2025. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 25 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Pale Beyond ($19.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: True Colors ($59.99, scores 47).

This site sampled 468 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 131 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

At 6.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

93% start to 3% 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

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

this is quite literally one of the worst games i've ever played. but atleast it led to snootgame
primalRecommendedafter 13h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I'm not sure what it is about a game about finding connection and love with the impending end of the world that stuck with me as I played it during a summer that beat all records for heat and lack of rain... But it made me cry and it reminded me to love like there's no tomorrow - because sometimes there isn't.
AliceRecommendedafter 6.2hAug 2026Read on Steam
Meant to play this years ago but fell in love with it more than i thought i would There are some issues sure but this game has SO much heart and soul put into it. Loved these characters, the amazing music and artstyle. I'll miss this game <3 You all did amazing also <3 Fang x Naomi <3 In a way I'm glad i played it this late making it easier to avoid the annoying fans of the *other* game. The straight up transphobic...
FluffyDeerRecommendedafter 6.9hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Goodbye Volcano High scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1310330/goodbye-volcano-high
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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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Tags

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Details

DeveloperKO_OP
PublisherKO_OP
GenreNarrative
Released2023
Achievements37