Monument Valley
BANGER · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $2.79, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2022.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $1.99/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 65% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 65% ($2.79)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embark on a journey of forgiveness through impossible environments and illusionary puzzles. Experience this meditative and calming puzzle game by manipulating monuments and creating evolving paths to explore new, surreal, and mysterious worlds.
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
The lowest price on record is $2.79, set in March 2025. It has been discounted 46 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $2.79 at 65 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
This sale is doing real work. 75 at list, 96 today.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is the best reviewed of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Monument Valley 2 ($2.79, scores 88) and A Monster's Expedition ($19.99, scores 71).
$4.85 is where it would stop being a BANGER. It is priced at $2.79.
3 of the 432 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,272 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
96% start to 40% 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
52 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Monument Valley scores 96/100 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/1927720/monument-valleyReviews 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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