Lushfoil Photography Sim

Lushfoil Photography Sim

Worth it · Strategy · 2025

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $14.99.

Length
9.2h
Value
$1.63/hr
Reviews
92% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
35% ($9.74)
Deepest seasonal cut
50% ($7.49)
Last discount ended
26 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
14.5h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.63
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
92%
1,844 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
79
critic score
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 1050Ti / Radeon R9 590 or equivalent, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.

A tranquil exploration and photography experience set across a vast selection of faithfully detailed landscapes.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement2% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Refunds23 of 443 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Length9.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 12 times in the 18 months tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games closest to it, Dinosaur Fossil Hunter ($19.99, scores 43) and PLAYNE : The Meditation Game ($14.99, scores 60) both come in lower.

The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 92 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 443 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 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, 136 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 23 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 832 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

7% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 9.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Players

13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

It's an incredible photography sim and actually genuinely got me passionate for photography in a way I haven't been before. Performance is great for such high-fidelity graphics and most of the complaints I see about the game I would heavily dispute personally. For the price it's a great experience.
jojomjRecommendedafter 13h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Good game for anyone want to try Photography as their hobby or first hand impression and It's pleasant experience at teaching me handling the settings of professional camera in a applying the basic principles to take a pic of a place or object that makes it nice to look at it for a beginner like me. The game environment and immersion on taking a hike on nature is superb that makes you look at it for long time and...
KerenskyRecommendedafter 3.3hAug 2026Read on Steam
I am in a wheelchair, I used to be an avid hiker and photographer. This game gave me that back after a year of practically being stuck inside, and this is such a wonderful experience. This game gave me back something I wasn't sure I'd ever experience again. I know this game probably won't touch people the same way it did for me, but regardless I am so happy this exists.
Lesly_is_a_messRecommendedafter 1.5hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Lushfoil Photography Sim scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1749860/lushfoil-photography-sim
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Reviews 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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Critics vs players+13
Critics
79
Players
92
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 1,844 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMatt2
PublisherAnnapurna Interactive
GenreStrategy
Released2025
Achievements22