Pathless Woods
Skip · RPG · 2024 · Early Access
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $15.99.
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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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.
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.
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.
- 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.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $15.99. That was November 2024. 23 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $15.99 at 20 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Saleblazers ($29.99, scores 33).
Of the 495 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to August 2026. That is more 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, 543 have a larger share. 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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Pathless Woods scores 36/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). 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-woodsThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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