Lone Fungus
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $5.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2022. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $0.53/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 70% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 65% ($6.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 70% ($5.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 9800GTX+, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
A handcrafted open-world platformer set in a world built by Mushrooms! Explore different locations filled with secrets, acquire new abilities and use those abilities to reach new places!
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 $5.99, set in November 2025. 44 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 70 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 54. With it, 65.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus ($19.99, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 11.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 409 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to September 2026.
Finishing takes 11.2 hours; clearing it takes 23, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
At 11.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
73% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 21:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I had wanted to enjoy this game as I've heard multiple people speak of its mechanics as being particularly engaging, but after 3-4 hours I'm unable to continue. The player character is lively and expressive, with some fun idling, AFK, and precariously-on-ledge animations. Player controls are tight, with an unusually pronounced jump height variability, which I like It's flat-out bizarre that it's not possible to...
This is a revier from an achievement hunter. I enjoy completing games and I enjoy seeing the blue and yellow ribbon that signifies on Steam that I have gotten every achievement in a game. So that said, I do not recommend Lone Fungus for people like me. I often see this game compared to Hollow Knight (as every metroidvania release since Hollow Knight) and Celeste. But what Lone Fungus does wrong compared to these two...
i really like this game but eventually i got bored of it. I think it just overstays its welcome. My favorite parts are the platforming sections. Very tight and rewarding to master, and there are so many. The boss fights are decent. Where the game falls short is the metroidvania aspect of it. The map is just so big and i found myself lost often. That might not be so bad for some people but i think the game would have...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Lone Fungus scores 65/100 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/1674780/lone-fungusReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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