The Wonderful End of the World
Skip · Short indie · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$4.14Fair
- Length
- 1.6h 3.3h to 100%
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 696 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.14 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 378 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
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About the game
You can't save the whole world. It's going to be eaten by a mythological demon with the head of a fish. But as a puppet that absorbs all it touches, you can try to rescue as much of Earth's greatness as you can before the end arrives. In the beginning, you roam the Earth, capable of absorbing only the tiniest of objects.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX9 compatible 3D card, 215 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
49 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 54 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 28 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. On the same math Zup! ($1.99, scores 75) and Zup! 3 ($1.99, scores 79) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about The Wonderful End of the World
69 from critics against 79 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 193 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.6 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
90% start to 12% 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 perfectly cromulent Katamari-like. Very short with not a lot of features but surprisingly challenging at points. Definitely has that "indie game programmed by one person from 20 years ago" stank to it but makes a nice little distraction. Somewhat made moot now that there are real Katamari games on PC now but if it's on sale, go ahead pick it up.
2 more reviews
The Wonderful End of The World is a game from a different era, created to satisfy a niche. Everyone loves Katamari Damacy, but back in 2008 it would take another 10 years for the franchise to properly be ported to the PC! The Wonderful End of The World is undeniably a different developer's take on this type of game, and so I was immediately curious to check it out. Now the core gameplay of having to collect items...
Pretty fun little game that serves as a spiritual successor to Tasty Planet. I highly recommend it, but on a hefty sale, because it unfortunately is extremely short, like it can be 100%ed in one sitting. A fun afternoon game, to binge, non the less!
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Cite this score
The Wonderful End of the World scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/15500/the-wonderful-end-of-the-worldReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.