Volcano Princess
BANGER · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $10.99.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon RX 460 or higher, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Prepare the next monarch by finding her hobbies, training her for battle, and befriending the citizens she'll one day protect. Dive into an all-new parenting-simulator-RPG adventure, where every decision you make will not only affect the future of your daughter but that of an entire empire!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.14. It has been discounted 28 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Yes, Your Grace ($3.99, scores 78) and Choice of Life: Middle Ages ($4.99, scores 69).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $14.43. It costs $10.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,863 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 1,349 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 9.1 hours; clearing it takes 51, which is 5.6 times the campaign.
3 years after release it still had 553 people in it at once.
The drop-off
97% start to 35% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
553 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
never been more proud of my daughter than when she was cracking both siblings of the royal family simultaneously
Volcano Princess is an hidden gem. I discovered it by chance, and I am so glad I gave it a try. This game is cute, well crafted and you can see the love the devs put into it, whether in terms of story, art or even gameplay. It represents well its genre or "raise your kid" simulator added with compelling characters and a daughter who is so adorable and well written. I think the main selling point would be its...
This game is fantastic, at first glance you'd think maybe this game isn't for you (I thought similarly), but it was genuinely so engaging with an amazing cast of characters and great story paths
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Volcano Princess scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1669980/volcano-princessThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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