Little Witch in the Woods
Fair · RPG · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $2.30/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Little Witch in the Woods tells the story of Ellie, an apprentice witch. Explore the mystical forest, help the charming residents, and experience the daily life of the witch.
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
The lowest price on record is $12.79, set in December 2025. It has been discounted 22 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 10 percent off, with about 9 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yaoling: Mythical Journey ($7.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats IdleOn - The Incremental MMO (free, scores 42).
23 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 1,265 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
8.7 hours to finish it, 37 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
47% 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
272 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 13:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A lovely game about the passage of time and restoring what's lost. The game is relatively heavy on gathering and crafting and offers a wide range of completionism gameplay (do all the special gathering conditions, fish all the fish, befriend all the villagers and cats etc) The artwork and style is quite lovely. If you actually want to complete everything tho the game will eat quite a large amount of time, to the...
Surprisingly engaging. Managed to grab me even though I normally dodge dialogue-heavy games like I'm Neo in the Matrix or something. There are a few silly translation errors here and there- I imagine those will get ironed out over time.
very relaxing and wholesome game i really enjoyed the first week of playing the game but it slowly gets repetitive and that's okay since it is the type of game that have more routine like stardew valley, I've came back lately to the game and suddenly it's really confusing to me and there's a lot of things i don't know the way of doing anymore so it kinda of hard for me to play now also after all the updates >_< but...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Little Witch in the Woods scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1594940/little-witch-in-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 19, price as of Oct 1.
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