The Adventure of NAYU

The Adventure of NAYU

Worth it · Short indie · 2021

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99, a BANGER if it drops to $1.69.

Length
0.6h
Value
$4.98/hr
Reviews
94% positive
It needs 43% off ($1.69) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.6h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.98
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
94%
1,785 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.3, 256 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Nayu is a fox who lives in a strangely cozy world.Go on a little adventure with Nayu ♪ in this adorable clicker-like game for everyone to enjoy.
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
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement73% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length0.6 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
Refunds1 of 368 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 $1.19. That was June 2026. Its cuts run 45 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 6 years tracked, about 15 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $1.69, a level the record has reached 9 times.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Coloring Pixels (free, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Oik 3 ($0.99, scores 72).

Steam's global achievement data puts 73 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 368 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 95 percent of the 1,186 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.

0.6 hours to finish it, 1 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.

The drop-off

88% start to 73% finish
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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

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 06:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Adventure of NAYU scores 75/100 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/1476340/the-adventure-of-nayu
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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

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developerambai
Publisherambai
GenreShort indie
Released2021
Achievements48