Mission in Snowdriftland
Worth it · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.22.
- Length
- 4h 6.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 361 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.22 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 318 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
About the game
Help Chubby, the fearless little snowman, with saving important artifacts from video game history! Mission in Snowdriftland is a pixel-art homage to classic 2D platformers like Super Mario.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB, Radeon HD 4870 512 MB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 3 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 52 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $5.22, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Moonleap ($8.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 74).
More about Mission in Snowdriftland
This site sampled 239 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
72% 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
What players say
A delightful little platformer who's history of creation, and the fact it exists still now to play better than ever before is a truly wonderful act of creative passion and video game preservation :)
2 more reviews
A really fun, snappy & short platformer. Difficulty jumps around a lot with some bosses being cakewalks and some levels posing real challenges. Speedrun mode adds a bit replayability, as does replaying in advent calendar format. Going for all the glitch pixels (something I haven't finished yet) is fun too, especially without a guide. I can only hope the developers bring out new games in the future because they...
The youtuber Nick Robinson brought me here (the guy who covered the 10 year hunt for the lost mcdonald's DS game). I like it and it is always nice to see how one person can get many people to come together to revive a lost classic like this one, a mesh between classic 2d Mario and other platformers. In terms of difficulty I believe that the it varies across all the levels, by that I am referring to the level design...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Mission in Snowdriftland scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1515200/mission-in-snowdriftlandReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.