Venba
Fair · Other · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$2.97BANGER
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $9.99/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X 9.0c compatible video card, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Venba is a short narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian mom who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s. Cook various dishes and restore lost recipes, hold branching conversations, and explore South Indian food in this story about family, love, and loss.
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
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in August 2026. 28 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $2.97, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. inbento ($4.99, scores 86) outscores it, and so does Dordogne ($14.99, scores 62). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Of the 457 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 1,577 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 67 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
92% start to 11% rarestNo 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, 04:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I went through a lot of emotions while playing this game. Absolutely love the storyline and the message behind it. The music, art style, cooking the recipes makes it so much more better. As someone who loves to cook, I loved the cooking in this game <3 A short game yet its packed with emotions. It's one of those games that stays with you even after you finish it. Truly unforgettable, and I know I'll keep coming back...
everything about this game is beautiful! i bought it on sale but would absolutely pay full price, it's short yet captivating in every way. the heartfelt story made it easy to become attached to the characters and immerse yourself in their world, and i was emotional through it all. the music is 10/10 and i loved the cooking aspect as that's what originally caught my eye!! the mechanics are simple but still makes you...
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Cite this score
Venba scores 57/100 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/1491670/venbaReviews 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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