Beasts of Maravilla Island
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2h 3.1h to 100%
- Value
- $5.00/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 515 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.23 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
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About the game
Beasts of Maravilla Island is a 3D adventure game where you take on the role of a young wildlife photographer who traverses Maravilla Island's magical ecosystems to discover extraordinary creatures, learn their behaviors, and, most importantly, photograph their majesty.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GT 630 / 650m, AMD Radeon HD6570 or equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 42 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 45 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure ($16.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Isle of Jura ($0.79, scores 13).
More about Beasts of Maravilla Island
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 256 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
95% start to 31% 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
A cute collectathon - it's not difficult and it's not trying to be. I have no complaints about the gameplay. Every quibble I *do* have is about the writing or the biodiversity and they just aren't significant. It's a very pretty game! Nice, cohesive environments. Sometimes I had some problems with moving while my camera was out and I ran into one weird collision issue, but that was an edge case.
2 more reviews
The movement controls are a little rough at times, Marina gets stuck on the environment a little too often. But it's not like this is a high stakes platformer, it's a fantasy to play in with your camera! Very fun.
Beasts of Maravilla Island is very cute. It's a good collection game with unique animals. My only complaint is that it's very short. There's only three levels. I would like to see more environments in the future.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Beasts of Maravilla Island scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1378020/beasts-of-maravilla-islandReviews 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.