Lost in Play

Lost in Play

Fair · Narrative · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a BANGER price before.

Today

$19.99Fair

On its price record

$7.49BANGER

Length
4.6h
Value
$4.35/hr
Reviews
98% positive
It needs 63% off ($7.49) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $17.89.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
4.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.35
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
98%
9,369 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Solve puzzles, riddles, and embark on an exciting journey of discovery! Join Toto and Gal as they explore dreamscapes and befriend magical creatures. Lost in their imagination, the brother and sister must stick together and solve puzzles to find their way home.
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
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$4.35/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length4.6 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds2 of 447 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

August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 44 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $7.49, a level the record has reached 12 times.

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 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55).

The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 98 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Of the 447 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 315 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

At 4.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

94% start to 19% 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

18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 22:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Wholesome game but the game somehow has Adult cutscenes but childish puzzles which makes no sense. Which audience they were targeting exactly?
Mugli GhuttiRecommendedafter 7.0h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
A very beautiful and sweet game about two siblings using imagination to create fantasy world and going on an epic adventure. The different biomes. stories and characters introduced brings back my own memories when me and my sister used to make up stories and played in our own visualized and magical universe. Lost in Play really made me lost in the older, simple times when the playground used to becomes a magical...
Mr. B1ooD$@g3Recommendedafter 5.7h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Had a fun time with it. Brings me back to some of my cartoon watching days. Puzzles were fair. Ranging from very easy to stopping and having to think for a moment, but none impossible. I liked the references to other Sci-Fi/Fantasy type movies without making it super obvious.
-=:Supra:=-Recommendedafter 6.6hSep 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Lost in Play 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/1328840/lost-in-play
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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+16
Critics
82
Players
98
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 9,369 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHappy Juice Games
PublisherJoystick Ventures
GenreNarrative
Released2022
Achievements19