Lonesome Village
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.3h 15.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.41/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 243 positive
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Buy now or wait
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
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
Relaxing puzzle-solving and life-sim meet in a cozy, no-combat, coyote adventure. Uncover the mysterious, magical past of Lonesome Village and save this town from the hands of evil.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 42 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Haven Park ($8.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
More about Lonesome Village
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
90% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is very cute and simple to play. I'm not very good at combat games, so I like that this game is puzzle-based. Even tasks such as fishing are far simpler than many other games. It makes for the perfect "cozy gaming" experience.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I can understand some of the neutral reviews of this game, my finding is that the first two chapters is very dragging and repetitive, though I really do enjoy the puzzles in this game, it helped me to carry and power through the first two chapters, but then after that, it goes more quicker and once you've rescued all of the villagers, you have more variety of things to do rather than doing the same thing over and...
I think this game would perform the best if marketed to children. It's cute, cozy, and doesn't rush you. I would have returned this game after about 30 minutes if I didn't buy this long before I played it... but it's not unbearable. I keep playing, waiting to get "hooked" like I usually do with these kinds of games and it just... never happened. Now I'm just on a grim mission to finish it so I can uninstall it. I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lonesome Village scores 33/100 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/1418360/lonesome-villageReviews 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.