Wild Woods
Skip · Multiplayer · 2024 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 45, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $5.77/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 14 and Oct 27, at about $4.94 (67% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 51 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($7.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 67% ($4.94)
- Last discount ended
- 18 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: Intel HD Graphics 520, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Wild Woods is a couch co-op game full of action, teamwork and woodland critters. One to four players take on the role of brave little cats defending their wooden wagon on its way through a dangerous forest. Clever cooperation is key - their way is full of obstacles!
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
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.94. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Temtem: Swarm ($9.09, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats Feed the Cups ($15.99, scores 27).
This site sampled 670 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 201 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 595 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
92% start to <1% 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
7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 08:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I thought this was like a quick mission/run where you protect and deliver the wagon a few levels, then fight a boss, go to town to do some upgrades, but its not. It's just one long run with zero permanent progression. There is no feeling of accomplishment cause you dont really level up anything, feels like a waste of time.
This is one of those mixed reviews thing, momentarily leaning on negative. The game is perfectly fine for what it means to do, and that is to be baby's first friendslop roguelike. If I was a kid, I'm sure I would've loved to play this game with my friends. But I'm far from those tender years, and the game doesn't really feel... rewarding to play. There's this je ne sais quoi that makes everything unreactive...
It's cozy, cute, fun, and overall a solid game. When I have friends come over, this is one of those games I champion to play if we need something laid back while we talk about stuff (though not too much since the game does offer a fair challenge too). If you need a solid, cozy game to play with your family or friends, I am happy to recommend this game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Wild Woods scores 45/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1975580/wild-woodsReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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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