Botany Manor

Botany Manor

Fair · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a BANGER price before.

Today

$24.99Fair

On its price record

$6.14BANGER

Length
3.4h
Value
$7.35/hr
Reviews
95% positive
It needs 75% off ($6.14) to be a BANGER.
Worth it at $15.54.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
3.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
4.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$7.35
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
1,581 reviews, as of Sep 27
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4600 or Radeon RX Vega 8, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with research, to figure out the ideal habitat of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 94% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement51% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$7.35/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length3.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 354 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $14.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 21 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.14. No recorded sale has reached it yet.

On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Exit 8 ($3.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Call of the Sea ($19.99, scores 54).

82 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts 51 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 354 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026.

At 3.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

91% start to 51% 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

6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 19:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Botany Manor scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1425350/botany-manor
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+13
Critics
82
Players
95
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,581 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBalloon Studios
PublisherWhitethorn Games
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Achievements36