Growing My Grandpa!
BANGER · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.5h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 515 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Growing My Grandpa! is a Cronenberg-inspired point-and-click adventure game with virtual pet elements that puts a heavy emphasis on exploration and lore.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX11 compliant graphics card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.74, set in June 2026. It has been discounted 9 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 20 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 ($3.99, scores 63) and Sally Face - Episode One ($2.99, scores 86) both come in lower.
More about Growing My Grandpa!
Steam's global achievement data puts 59 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 307 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 139 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
63% start to 59% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Main character understands Russian folklore better than Moscow-Tartu Semiotic School, Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics, and every Soviet and Russian folklore studies insitution combined (which is not hard to achieve considering the academics never bothered to soil their hands with actual folklore). The commentary on the decline of public science institutions was satiating. Technical details: Proton...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I streamed this game yesterday without knowing what to expect from Growing My Grandpa. What an eye-opening experience. If you want to play this game, I would highly recommend going in blind. This game is haunting. The lore is woven into the pieces of documents you pick up throughout. Yames' brain needs to be studied.
It kinda kills me to say this because the atmosphere, graphics, and sound design are excellent, but this is a monotonous, repetitive and tedious experience that ends really soon. The horror elements are limited to pseudo-scientific documents that try to build an atmosphere, but ultimately its efforts get drowned because the gameplay itself is so boring. There's soul in this game, for sure, but you might get the same...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Growing My Grandpa! scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1986880/growing-my-grandpaReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.