Kujlevka
Worth it · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2023.
- Length
- 4.2h 8.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 683 positive
Full price
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Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A flying saucer crash-lands in a distant Russian village, turning a rundown kolkhoz into the first, thin bridge between civilizations. As the first point of contact, you must dictate how this encounter unfolds and ultimately determine history’s outcome.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 650, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in September 2025. Across all 19 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 11 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Haven Park ($8.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Alaskan Road Truckers ($21.99, scores 6).
More about Kujlevka
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 351 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026.
4.2 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 10% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 12:58 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Kujlevka is a narrative experience that thrives on atmosphere, ambiguity, and the quietly surreal, presenting a story that unfolds more like a dream than a traditional adventure. Developed by Callback and published by Crytivo, the game situates you in a remote Russian village in the early 1990s, a time defined by uncertainty and post-Soviet disillusionment. You play as Valery Potikhonchenkov, a wounded veteran whose...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A well thought through game which takes a different, very Russian approach to the alien invasion genre. A good selection of central characters which explore the attitudes of different sectors of Russian society immediately after the fall of the iron curtain. Perhaps some things are lost in the English translation, but it is still recommended.
I am probably not recommending it. And not because it's niche. Perhaps I am comparing it too much to Indika, which I finished before playing this, but it's just not that great. Firstly, unlike Indika this one is definitely for people from post-soviet lands. A lot of humor and references in general will fly over the head for people not familiar with what it was to live there. Heck, it probably won't be understood by...
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Cite this score
Kujlevka scores 77/100 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/1365720/kujlevkaReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.