Pluviophile
Worth it · Short indie · 2020
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.6h 0.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.65/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 324 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 750 Ti 2 GB or AMD RADEON HD 7850 2 GB, 2.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
July 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.34. 60 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Nephise Begins ($0.99, scores 11) and Spirit of the North ($2.99, scores 67).
More about Pluviophile
Steam's global achievement data puts 46 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 278 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 253 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 91 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
96% start to 46% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Although it's short enough that it doesn't get too mind-numbing, this game doesn't warrant three 'chapters.' It's cheap, so I can't really say it's not worth the price or similar, but I did find myself over it by chapter two. You're essentially wandering through the exact same scenery three times, with things just moved around, doing the same three objectives (find glowy flower, move to disc on floor, read poem...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pluviophile scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1322170/pluviophileReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.