Northern Journey
BANGER · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $11.99.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $1.07/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($7.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 45% ($6.59)
- Last discount ended
- 94 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, GT 640, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
A norwegian happysad game set in a northern land! Adventure through a beautiful and very varied wilderness. Dive, fly, use ziplines and find different weapons to aid your journey to reach the cold mountains and below. Encounter over 50 unique bosses and enemy types!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $6.59. Its cuts run 35 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 5 years tracked, about 16 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Their Land ($2.99, scores 0) and GRAVEN ($24.99, scores 0), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $14.49. It costs $11.99.
This site sampled 420 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 184 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Players
6 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game took 17 hours of my life. I don't want them back, but i do wish i could experience the game for the first time again.
I am just a lonely slinger, and there are *SO* many bugs. Really does feel like an adventure where lots of other games fail.
What an absolute treasure. I loved this game from beginning to end. The progression was very satisfying, and the exploration was so fun. Combat mechanics are slightly jank but fighting was still satisfying, with some very cool weapons. The atmosphere created by the unique visuals and music is unlike anything I've played before, I was really immersed in the world. My highest reccomendation!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Northern Journey scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1639790/northern-journeyReviews 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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