Wet steps

Wet steps

Fair · Short indie · 2020

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.6h 0.7h to 100%
Value
$4.98/hr
Reviews
92% of 289 positive
It needs 10% off ($2.68) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.68 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 350 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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement71% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 265 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

About the game

Have a relationship with a charming priestess! An urban fantasy short and brisk visual novel with elements of slavic mythology.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, The graphics card must support DirectX 9.0, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 19 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 33 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 50 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten 2 ($14.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Who Needs a Hero? ($19.99, scores 61).

More about Wet steps

Steam's global achievement data puts 71 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 265 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to May 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 244 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 92 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

80% start to 71% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 11, 13:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝙰 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 "𝙴𝚗𝚍𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚂𝚞𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛"! 𝙰 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚢 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚘𝚛, 𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊 𝚐𝚞𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚍𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎. 𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭: 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍-𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚜 𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚖, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍 𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝...
猴子D.路飞☠Recommendedafter 1.1h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
Wet Steps takes you for a short yet intriguing ride with some rather nice horror elements. It's well-paced despite being so short and provides you with different endings that are quite good. However, it's not without faults. First things first, the writing could use some work. Now, the description is pretty decent and has character - which is kind of vital as it's written in first person. However, it does something...
EllaFrostFireRecommendedafter 2.1hNov 2021Read on Steam

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Wet steps scores 66/100 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/1414800/wet-steps
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Details

DeveloperOrika Nekoi
Publisher Moonworks
GenreShort indie
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8