Wife Quest
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.8h 13.1h to 100%
- Value
- $0.52/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 431 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
A retro platform, side-scrolling game with gorgeous pixel art. Help Mia rescue Fernando, her husband, who has been kidnapped by a Dark Elf named Morganna and her pack of Monster Girls.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GTX+ (1GB), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 53 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 50 percent off still sits 101 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Wife Quest
Of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026.
The main story runs 5.8 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
86% start to 4% 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
I came to this game after playing thru this dev's other game Maiden Cops. I liked that Beat 'em up game, thought they did a good job with it, so I figured I check out their effort with this combat-focused platformer. Much like their other game, I very much enjoyed this one. It was just the right length. The character animations were awesome, movement felt good, levels were well designed, and the boss fight were...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Wife Quest is a charming retro-style action platformer developed and published by Pippin Games that embraces the spirit of classic 16-bit adventures while adding its own playful personality. The story follows Mia, a fearless former warrior whose peaceful married life is interrupted when her husband, Fernando, is kidnapped by the seductive Dark Elf Morganna and her army of Monster Girls. Rather than presenting a...
The game wants to be fun and it starts quite enjoyable while advertising itself as casual platformer. But as soon as you reach the third world you discover that levels goes on forever with some of the most infuriating timed micro-jumping you'll ever see. You get more powerful but so does the level design requiring timing, memory and sync so much that shovel knight seems an easy game. When I reached the level...
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Cite this score
Wife Quest scores 59/100 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/1554600/wife-questReviews 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.