Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2024.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 75% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 60% ($7.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
A NEW interactive animated adventure! In this action-adventure game, Arzette must explore the Kingdom of Faramore, slay fearsome foes, acquire powerful items, discover secrets, assist colorful characters, and defeat the evil Daimur!
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 $4.99. That was November 2025. It has been discounted 26 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 71 at list, 94 today.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) and Wuppo: Definitive Edition ($14.99, scores 77).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $9.55. It costs $4.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 330 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
At 3.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
92% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 3.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I hope this game gets continually rediscovered because this is an absolute gem. Incredibly easy but funny, rewarding exploration, 10/10 animation, story, dialogue, voice acting, and soundtrack.
Clearly a lot of love went into making this. Of course the CDI cutscenes would be the big selling point, but the game itself is actually super fun and full of content for its ~5-6h runtime to 100%. Also the soundtrack slaps
The existence of this game is of course, a meme. It's heavily inspired by and takes many cues from the infamously awful Phillips CDI Zelda games. Expect Hotel Mario references thrown at you too. If none of this makes sense to you, then you probably aren't going to enjoy it because the whole game pretty much hinges on this one joke, what if "Wand of Gamelon" but with legally distinct stand-in characters? The one...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1924780/arzette-the-jewel-of-faramoreReviews 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 1.
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