Affogato

Affogato

Fair · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
9.7h
Value
$1.75/hr
Reviews
83% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

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
40% ($10.19)
Deepest seasonal cut
50% ($8.49)
Last discount ended
18 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.75
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$16.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
83%
1,143 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 570, 1 GB, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Affogato is a RPG featuring a unique 'reverse tower defense' mechanic. Play as a sorceress managing a café in Arorua. Meet customers from all walks of life, hear their stories and travel into their minds to help them defeat their inner demons. Experience a city life that exudes magic and excitement.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Value$1.75/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length9.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 469 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $7.64, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 29 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 35 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga ($19.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats 再刷一把 PlayAgain ($8.99, scores 15).

This site sampled 469 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 179 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

94% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

I have played this game up to 10 times and i cant stop replaying it. If there was a request i would like to make it would definitly be PLEASE MAKE A AFFOGATO 2
greensprewRecommendedafter 47hAug 2026Read on Steam
This game has got some real persona feels. Apart from the combat. The last hours of the game were really surprising in a good way how the story ended. I can only recommend this game and story for everyone to play it. The only negative i can say is the difficulty of the game. There is no shame for playing it in easy mode.
SteveOfThe501STRecommendedafter 16hMar 2026Read on Steam
I picked up Affogato on a whim a few months ago, and generally had a good time. The dialogue and themes were engaging, and I liked the cast. Most "anime" games really aren't my thing, but the style and gameplay got me interested. At the end of the day, I think I'd reccomend this game, with a few large asterisks attached to it, though. The setup and vibes of this game are exceptionally good, but it does have a really...
WebberManRecommendedafter 14hJan 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Affogato scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1983970/affogato
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Reviews 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBefun Studio
PublisherSpiral Up Games
GenreRPG
Released2023
Achievements31