No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

Skip · RPG · 2022

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 48, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
16.7h
Value
$1.20/hr
Reviews
78% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
16.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
36h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.20
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
78%
4,115 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 750 / Radeon HD 7770, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

Humanity Trashed the Earth and left for Mars. Only few remained. EXPLORE the world. Clean the environment, CRAFT with recycled resources. Domesticate animals. Rebuild your village. Restore environment and run your own post-apo FARM as there is No Place Like Home!
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
Value$1.20/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length17 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ 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
Refunds13 of 800 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 $2.99. 43 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, My Time at Portia ($29.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival ($19.99, scores 43).

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 457 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 16.7 hours. Doing everything runs 36, 2.2 times as long.

The drop-off

55% start to 3% 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

15 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 01:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It had good potential, the laidback cutsey nature of it was really appealing, but alas it appears to be left in limbo with bugs etc. The developer also appears to have reused the assets in a newer game of a similar nature. Pretty janky to play - mouse control is pretty bad and some areas are clearly in need of polishing. The final area and boss is pretty rushed, took only 5-10 minutes to complete verse the couple...
EndyaNot recommendedafter 49h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Feels like baby dev's first cozy game without any of the love that other cozy games come with. Unpolished and buggy. Definitely don't recommend.
Mediocri_teaNot recommendedafter 2.2hSep 2026Read on Steam
I bought this game in early access on the potential it had to be something amazing. It's 3 years after the last sign of life from the developer and a switch release, but the game is still in a rough early access state. It has working controller support now, but is hardly in a finished state. Skip the tutorial - it will only confuse you. The text boxes use undersized fonts, often dialog will get bugged out with other...
brookswiftNot recommendedafter 7.1hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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No Place Like Home scores 48/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1472660/no-place-like-home
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperChicken Launcher
PublisherAwaken Realms
GenreRPG
Released2022
Achievements158