Melatonin
Worth it · Action · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.11.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $7.14/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $7.49. That was September 2025. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 22 in the 4 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.11. The record reaches that level 7 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Everhood ($9.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Lofi Ping Pong (free, scores 65).
This site sampled 726 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 46 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 644 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,622 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
2.1 hours to finish it, 9 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
59% start to <1% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 10:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
as a rythm game, it's terrible. that shopping level is probably the worst thing i have ever played. why is there a damn delay on the card, it's arbitrary and meaningless. go play heaven studio or a gutar hero clone idk but not this trash
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Melatonin scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1585220/melatoninReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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