NAIAD
Fair · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. A BANGER at $4.45, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2024 (lowest $9.99, Mar 2026).
- Length
- 5.2h 13.3h to 100%
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 743 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.45 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Immerse yourself in a relaxing, minimalist and colorful adventure. Flow with Naiad across a mysterious river and interact with its fauna and flora to discover little secrets. Enjoy a wholesome experience with an original and dreamy visual style.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Graphics 4400 or better, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
18 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $4.45, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Carto ($19.99, scores 72) and Botanicula ($14.99, scores 68) both outscore it.
More about NAIAD
None of the 325 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.2 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
93% start to 7% 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
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 13:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Naiad swims, Naiad dashes, Naiad flows, Naiad sings, Naiad drives bad humans away.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
NAIAD scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1813860/naiadReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.