Journey to the West

Journey to the West

Fair · Roguelike · 2023

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$19.99
as of Sep 29
Reviews
81%
1,702 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 or OpenGL 4.0 compatible or above, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

A challenging rogue-like deck building game about a legendary adventure in the Realm of Divinity. Lead your team, build your unique deck, gather powerful relics and consumables to confront legendary creatures and eventually discover the truth behind the omen of darkness.
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

Holding it back
Reviews81% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 595 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

June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. In 3 months of price history it has never once been discounted.

Value puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, LONESTAR ($12.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Cross Blitz ($22.99, scores 39).

Of the 595 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

82% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 06:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Journey to the West scores 53/100 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/1449070/journey-to-the-west
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Sep 29.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperZ Studio
PublisherZ Studio
GenreRoguelike
Released2023
Achievements93