Kayak VR: Mirage
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $16.09. Fair at $8.53, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2022 (lowest $14.94, Feb 2024).
- Length
- 2.3h
- Value
- $7.00/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($16.09)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($14.94)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 1070 / AMD 5700 XT, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.
Kayak VR: Mirage is a jaw-dropping and exhilarating journey through beautiful locations, made for Virtual Reality. Maneuver our fully physically accurate kayak around checkpoints and crown yourself the fastest, or take it easy and use the free roam mode and enjoy the scenery.
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
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $14.94. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 42 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $16.09 at 30 percent off still sits 8 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 38. With it, 43.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FPV SkyDive : FPV Drone Simulator (free, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Wrench ($29.99, scores 39).
38 of the 473 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 44 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 722 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 72 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.3 hours. Doing everything runs 17, 7.4 times as long.
The drop-off
31% start to <1% 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
What players say
Yes, its that good. I am always coming back to it and astonish friends and famlly on a regular basis.
OVERALL IMPRESSION A very beautiful but short game. It's visually stunning, but unfortunately, it doesn't really give me a reason to keep coming back. Interestingly, I have never kayaked in real life, but after playing this game, it actually made me want to try it out for real! CONTROLS & PHYSICS [*] The Kayaking Feel: I really enjoyed the actual feeling of paddling. The physics and movement feel great. [*]...
Graphics demonstration. NOT a game. Unbelievable that anyone would take this amount of time to make it and then utterly fail to make it the slightest interesting or fun. Will set you up for a huge disappointment.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Kayak VR: Mirage scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1683340/kayak-vr-mirageReviews 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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