Sophia the Traveler
Skip · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $8.99.
- Length
- 2.7h 3.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 450 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
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About the game
Join our lovely heroine as she roams Venice, the City of Water. Like a Where's Wally Visual Novel: Search for objects & characters in stunning and vivid hand-painted cityscapes!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GT 430 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 5570 (1024 MB), 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
27 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 61 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Travellin Cats in China ($0.49, scores 82) and Travellin Cats in Italy ($0.49, scores 83) both outscore it.
More about Sophia the Traveler
This site sampled 299 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
92% start to 25% 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
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 04:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a difficult hidden object game. Sophia the Traveller reminded me of the Hidden Through Time game franchise and Where's Waldo Books, with caveats. What was done well: +Cute Maps progress the story of a young lady on her travels +magnifier to find objects when you've given up on finding them +When you click an object in the Unfound Tray it will give you a pop up balloon that tells you a little clue about the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
wild price for such a short and frustrating game... - the clues are useless. a lot of them will be like "sophia is enjoying her fruit!" but the map is enormous and when you finally fine sophia, there's no fruit anywhere near her - other than her sprite eating an apply or something, but you can see that in the list of objects to find. what's the point of writing it out as a hint? - the controls are clunky, despite...
Super cute game! If you're only looking at the screen to find things you're probably going to have a hard time because maps can be very big. HOWEVER if you zoom in and look at the scenes and enjoy how it's set up, you'll be able to find things without too much difficulty. This shouldn't be a game you rush through or you'll definitely be frustrated. The sounds are cute and it has such a cute artistic style!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sophia the Traveler scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1602540/sophia-the-travelerReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.