Fossil Corner

Fossil Corner

Worth it · Strategy · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.76.

Length
3.9h 8h to 100%
Value
$2.56/hr
Reviews
98% of 357 positive
It needs 12% off ($8.76) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.76 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Raising the score
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 95% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$2.56/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 306 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

You're a retired paleontologist. Collect fossils and solve puzzles in the calm of your old garage!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Graphics 5500 or better, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 44 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.76. The record reaches that level 44 times.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dorfromantik ($13.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Cloud Gardens ($17.99, scores 71).

More about Fossil Corner

Of the 306 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to July 2026.

3.9 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.

The drop-off

84% start to 14% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Super cozy logic puzzles game! When I was doing my bio degree in college, I used to haaaate doing phylogenetic trees for classes, but this game simplifies it a bit and makes it fun!
pickles4nicklesRecommendedafter 5.4hApr 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Fossil Corner scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1587710/fossil-corner
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBrady Soglin
PublisherBrady Soglin
GenreStrategy
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12