QV

QV

Fair · Action · 2021

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
7.1h 14.6h to 100%
Value
$2.11/hr
Reviews
87% of 272 positive
It needs 61% off ($5.79) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.79 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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
Engagement15% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.11/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 129 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

About the game

Start a dimension-jumping adventure with Quby!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1 GB VRAM), 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 46 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moss VR ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Kiki ($0.99, scores 0).

More about QV

Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

7.1 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.

The drop-off

90% start to 15% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

Very cute and lots of fun! Firstly, I want to state that I played this with a controller, and it was a lot easier than a keyboard, so keep that in mind before you buy. I really enjoyed playing this game, and even after I finished I felt like I'd happily play it all over again. Don't let the cute art style fool you, this game can be quite challenging to figure out at times, particularly on the harder levels. I...
Katac_LysmRecommendedafter 19h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
QV is not a platformer in any sense of the word, contrary to the tags on Steam. Yes, there is a jump button, but it doesn't do anything. It's literally useless. And by "literally" I don't mean "figuratively", for a change. There is not a single instance of anything in the game that can be done by jumping while being impossible to do by simply walking. Jumping is only an animation. You can't jump on top of anything...
KyoRecommendedafter 39hOct 2023Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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QV scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1494110/qv
Embed the live badge

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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperIZZLE
PublisherCFK Co., Ltd.
GenreAction
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements79