Ogu and the Secret Forest
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $14.04.
- Length
- 13h
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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% ($14.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2GB Dedicated VRAM, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Explore the wonderful world with baby Ogu! 'Ogu and the Secret Forest' is a 2D adventure game with hand-drawn characters and various types of puzzles. Befriend bouncy characters and defeat strange creatures to unravel the mystery of the charming world.
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 $13.74, set in August 2026. 31 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $14.04 BANGER line once.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ori and the Will of the Wisps ($2.99, scores 99) beats it on value, while it beats Figment 2: Creed Valley ($24.99, scores 60).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 9 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 409 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 13 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
95% start to 9% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 13-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 17:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The hours you see I've played -- that's my first playthrough doing (nearly) everything the game has to offer. Yes, I like this game. It's such a good blend of silly, serious, fun, and difficulty that I'm hooked. Whether it was epic anime battles while fishing, or solving an actual murder mystery, or finding my way through a desert maze, or calling up characters to help me with puzzles, or just watching little Ogu do...
Ogu and the Secret Forest is a charming 2D adventure built around curiosity, exploration, puzzles, and the simple pleasure of discovering what lies beyond the next corner. Developed by Moonlab Studio and Sinkhole Studio and published by Sinkhole Studio and 2P Games, it follows Baby Ogu through a colorful hand-drawn world filled with unusual creatures, mysterious locations, hidden pathways, collectibles, and...
Reminds me of an older Zelda game. Very cute characters and scenery. Definitely recommend
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ogu and the Secret Forest scores 75/100 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/1985960/ogu-and-the-secret-forestReviews 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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