A Little to the Left

A Little to the Left

Fair · Short indie · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.8h
Value
$3.94/hr
Reviews
92% positive
It needs 48% off ($7.84) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
3.8h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
12.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.94
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
92%
19,213 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
75
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Direct X 11.0 compatible video card, 1.2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

A Little to the Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into pleasing arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 100+ satisfying messes to tidy.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$3.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length3.8 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds24 of 800 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 32 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. On the same math Sudocats ($1.99, scores 97) and Dogs Organized Neatly ($2.99, scores 97) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

Critics scored it 75. Players sit 17 points higher at 92 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 24 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 1,070 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 3.8 hours; clearing it takes 12, which is 3.2 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

94% start to 3% 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

Players

422 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 18:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

A little disappointed in this game to be honest. The levels that were focused on sorting trays of bits and similar were nice, but not that many. Achievements are only a few for the base game. Most are DLC etc. A number of other levels had no real direction for sorting and such, just random luck to decide which of many ways you can "order" things. Also the achievement/challenges for doing dailies for many days in a...
mfbatorqueNot recommendedafter 7.2h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

Cite this score

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A Little to the Left scores 57/100 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/1629520/a-little-to-the-left
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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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+17
Critics
75
Players
92
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 19,213 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMax Inferno
PublisherSecret Mode
GenreShort indie
Released2022
Achievements65