Wildmender
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20.4h
- Value
- $1.23/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or Equivalent, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?
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 $8.49, set in February 2026. 33 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Forager ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Force of Nature ($7.99, scores 44).
Of the 562 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 123 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
20.4 hours to finish it, 45 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% 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
23 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 06:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I've played a whole 70 minutes so far but I am doing this time-based semi-narrative multiple updates thing now so strap in or on or whatever. So far my quick impressions are: lo-fi, trudgy, but wonderful. Nothing wrong with the first thing at this price point. I hope the second improves at some point. But for the third item, I'm really enjoying the discovery, which is approximately my favorite thing in a game. Two...
This is a lovely game, from the graphics to the planting of plants and trees, expanding the water sources, fighting the blight, survive in the harsh desert and follow the interesting story. In essence you are the wildmender, trying to heal the lands by freeing water sources, removing the blight, fight against the wrights that haunt the lands, plant grass and trees, craft items and benches to create rings...
It's a pretty interesting game but imo travelling around quickly becomes boring and annoying. It's honestly the one things I feel like all these open world survival games REALLY should get right considering just how much of it you have to do. I'm technically within the refund limit still, but I'll refrain from refunding because I did enjoy most of the time I spent in the game, I just don't see myself playing any...
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Cite this score
Wildmender scores 61/100 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/1599330/wildmenderReviews 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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