Little Orpheus
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 23, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 4h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.50/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 681 positive
Full price
Today
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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
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About the game
A technicolor side-scrolling narrative adventure game inspired by classic movies including Flash Gordon, Sinbad, and The Land that Time Forgot. Join our bold yet hapless hero as he explores lost civilizations, undersea kingdoms, prehistoric jungles, and lands beyond imagination.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, Radeon 7870 / GeForce GTX 660. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 31 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $1.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Pinstripe ($14.99, scores 49) and Nihilumbra ($7.99, scores 65) both outscore it.
More about Little Orpheus
This site sampled 390 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
67% start to 8% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 05:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Calling this game a "puzzle platformer" would be too generous: it's more of a 2d walking simulator where it's near impossible to lose, and no puzzle takes more than a second of thought. Back when I played Limbo and Inside, their over-reliance on puzzles felt irritating, as it's hard to feel the horror of what's happening when you're too busy moving boxes around. Here, perhaps, a certain amount of challenge would...
2 more reviews
Little Orpheus is an episodic, side-scrolling platforming adventure game where you play as Ivan Ivanovich, a cosmonaut retelling his story to a general about how he lost his nuclear-powered exploration capsule after he was dropped to the center of the Earth. He tells stories about how he traversed mysterious lands from Russian legends, such as Plutonia and Sannikov Land as well as encounters with the Menkv. But how...
Well... I can definetly understand why this game has mixed reviews. So, let's start with the good points. The story is great. It's funny, engaging and unpredictable. The graphics are also very nice and the environments change completly with each episode (of which ther are eight plus the epilogue) which makes them always interesting. Now let's move on to the not so good points. The gameplay is pretty basic, which...
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Cite this score
Little Orpheus scores 23/100 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/1558930/little-orpheusReviews 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.