Flowstone Saga
Skip · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$17.99Skip
On its price record
$12.69Fair
- Length
- 8.9h 24.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.02/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 248 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.69 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
Master a totally unique puzzle-battle system in this 16-bit, JRPG-inspired adventure featuring an epic story, charming characters, stunning pixel art, and epic music. Follow a grand story set in the mysterious Ocean's End islands full of lost memories, ancient ruins, pirates, treasures, and frogs.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX10, D11, DX12 capable graphics, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 12 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Evoland 2 ($19.99, scores 68) and FINAL FANTASY IV ($17.99, scores 56) both outscore it.
More about Flowstone Saga
Finishing takes 8.9 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 2.7 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
60% start to 4% rarestNo 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
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 15:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I just got to basically the end of the game, most likely the last dungeon before the final boss. After fighting some big pink creature, the screen went black. I had to close the game and reload. Now, my character is trapped outside of the map. I can walk around but I cannot get back into the playable map path. So my save is basically bricked and I'd have to completely start over if I want to keep playing. I think...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If this game was more popular I probably wouldn't give it a positive review. The core gameplay is fun but a victim of feature-creep (why are there so many random side-objectives mid-battle to think about focusing on when most of them don't even matter???) and the writing is just unbelievably boring and dull, it's a really frustrating game because at times you can really feel the passion and at other times it's like...
Game crashes way too much. It's annoying trying to figure out where missing ruin puzzles are. If you skip dialogue from side-quests then it is sometimes difficult to figure out where to go to obtain what is needed to complete the quest. Didn't even bother with the story since the game crashed so much that I rather just spam the skip button. If you try to skip after the final fight the game softlocks on a black...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Flowstone Saga scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1372000/flowstone-sagaReviews 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.