(the) Gnorp Apologue
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 15.2h
- Value
- $0.46/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB, OpenGL 3+, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
(the) Gnorp Apologue is the journey of the gnorps as you guide them towards their goal of delightfully excessive wealth accumulation.
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
The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.84. It has been discounted 13 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 13 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cookie Clicker ($4.99, scores 98) beats it on value, while it beats Mr.Mine (free, scores 77).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 442 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
97% start to 39% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
100 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
in the stripped club. straight up "gnorpin it" and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My apologue
The Gnorp Apologue is a fun, surprisingly short little idle game about beating the ever-loving crap out of a rock until you win. Solid concept, cute visuals, and surprisingly challenging - Gnorp takes what a lot of Idle games have (prestige system, rapidly escalating numbers, simple gameplay loops extrapolated to the extreme) and refines it into a solid, enjoyable package that never stuck around long enough to be...
The Gnorp Apologue starts strong enough, but eventually settles into a grind that feels more tedious than rewarding. The core loop could be much more satisfying if progression were tuned down by 25% or more. As it stands, following guides feels like the most practical way to finish the game and move on rather than experimenting naturally. The design philosophy is especially confusing: the game explicitly encourages...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
(the) Gnorp Apologue scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1473350/the-gnorp-apologueReviews 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 Oct 1.
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