Riven
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $34.99. A BANGER at $7.96, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Jun 2024 (lowest $20.99, Apr 2025).
- Length
- 9.5h
- Value
- $3.68/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($20.99)
- Last discount ended
- 26 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 5700XT; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8GB; at least 6GB VRAM, 30 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
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 $20.99, set in April 2025. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 15 in the 2 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago. No sale on record has reached $7.96, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Myst: Masterpiece Edition ($5.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Myst ($34.99, scores 44).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 508 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 303 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
94% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
30 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 22:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A worthy remake of a classic! It has been an overall good experience to visit the world of Riven again, and while I would not call it perfect, it is a great addition to my Mac gaming library. I went for all of the achievements, and it gave me an enjoyable 15 hours of gameplay. Likes - The puzzle tweaks from the original are good, and fitting for the 3D enironment - It ran fairly smoothly at medium-high settings on...
Visually stunning remake that has brought the original 1997 Riven to life in fully 3D-rendered environments, however the character design still feels really uncanny and they've reworked/simplified a lot of the puzzles. One of Riven's strongest attributes is that the puzzles don't really feel like puzzles, rather like obstacles that make sense in the world. More often than not, you will feel like you're interacting...
Its a beautiful remake of a classic among the genre. A first person puzzle game based around understanding and using big mechanical (and somewhat magical) machinery to travel through a magical and mechanical world. I had postponed playing this game for years and I can't but recommend it
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Riven scores 60/100 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/1712350/rivenReviews 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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