Landlord of the Woods
BANGER · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $1.24/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X 9.0c compatible video card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.28. That was June 2023. 49 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 51 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Birth ($10.99, scores 71).
The math says it holds its tier up to $2.49, and you are being asked for $0.99.
This site sampled 337 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 1,180 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Nice little cozy story, I wish I could quit my day job to be a landlord of the woods too
{ - Story - } 🔲 Very Good ✅ Good 🔲 Medium 🔲 Bad 🔲 Very Bad 🔲 No Story { - Gameplay - } 🔲 Very Good 🔲 Good ✅ Medium 🔲 Bad 🔲 Very Bad { - Graphics - } 🔲 Very Good 🔲 Good ✅ Medium 🔲 Bad 🔲 Very Bad { - Playtime - } 🔲 100+ Hours 🔲 50 - 100 Hours 🔲 25 - 50 Hours 🔲 10 - 25 Hours ✅ 0 - 10 Hours 🔲 No Specified Playtime
Collecting rent from woodland creatures while questioning your entire existence? Just another day at the office. Beautiful hand-drawn art, quirky puzzles, and a surprisingly touching story make this short adventure well worth your time.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Landlord of the Woods scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1564090/landlord-of-the-woodsReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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