Pathless Woods
Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 34, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 1,129
- Genre rank
- Top 43% RPG
Holding it back: Early access, Cost per hour, est. length
Why
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 50
Price and sales
- Sales
- 23 on record
- Typical cut
- 20% off
- Steam low
- $15.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 39d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 14 now
- Cheaper than
- 10% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 72% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
81% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
23 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 20 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 43 percent. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nova Lands ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Sapiens ($24.99, scores 33).
More about Pathless Woods
Of the 498 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 460 have a larger share. In its first 30 days on sale, 4 of 121 sampled reviews came from refunders. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 121 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
About the game
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (DDR4) or AMD Radeon RX 550, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pathless Woods scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1726130/pathless-woodsReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.