PANELKI
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 3.9h
- Value
- $2.05/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 76% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
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
- 90% ($0.79)
- Last discount ended
- 25 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 760, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
A utility worker earns for a ticket to leave the endless Siberian city of panel houses. Permafrost, day/night cycle, dynamic weather and open world. Feel the atmosphere of the northern city, having been in the role of a handyman. Now with multiplayer!
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.74. That was January 2024. 48 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, PLAYNE : The Meditation Game ($14.99, scores 60) and СИМУЛЯТОР ОДИНОЧЕСТВА В РУССКОЙ ДЕРЕВНЕ ($1.99, scores 45), are both worse buys on this math.
Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 76 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 620 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 26 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 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, 294 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 994 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
3.9 hours to finish it, 17 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
43% start to 3% 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 23:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A simulator where you play as a municipal maintenance worker in a post-Soviet city. The concept is interesting; the scenery evokes memories of childhood winters and perfectly captures the atmosphere typical of such towns-bleak views, gloom, and a sense of hopelessness, yet also nostalgia. Nostalgia is a universal human trait; regardless of where you were born, lived, or are now, there are always positive memories...
The idea of the game is very charming but the execution is sloppy & boring. And don't get me started on the horrible Delivery DLC that you have to buy to get all achievements. You run around on an infinite soviet block map shovelings snow and doing the same 3 things over and over again. The Delivery DLC straight up does not work 90% of the time and you need it to get all achievements + it does not tie into the main...
honestly its repetitive and you need to pay for the dlc to get all the achievements but I like the premise of the game and its easy to finish despite you really only doing about 3 things in the main part of the game. I would not recommend this at the full price but I think at a discount this is a good one to pick up and you can finish it in 2-3 hours or even quicker if you try
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
PANELKI scores 71/100 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/1836160/panelkiReviews 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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