Gourdlets
Worth it · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.44.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $5.54/hr
- Reviews
- 92% 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
- 25% ($3.74)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($2.49)
- Last discount ended
- 9 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
An easygoing sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks. Create your perfect community then watch as the gourdlets make themselves at home. No objectives, no points, just good vibes. Play in full screen, or let your gourdlets hang out at the bottom of your screen!
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 $2.49, set in June 2026. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 19 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.44. The record reaches that level 19 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, Townscaper ($5.99, scores 69) and SUMMERHOUSE ($4.99, scores 61), are both worse buys on this math.
This site sampled 446 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 561 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 16 times as long.
The drop-off
86% start to 3% 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
first off, this is NOT a game for everyone. the item choices are very limited. gameplay feels the same, youre working with a handful of options for creation. a lot of people would hate the limitations, but i definitely dont mind it. it doesnt feel overwhelming. its like im given a handful of toys and told to use my imagination. this is my "my brain shut down but i want to play a game" game for me. limitation is the...
Gourdlets is an amazingly fun and super cute game. If you love mindlessly planning towns and decorating, even decorating inside homes and buildings - this is 100% the game for you!!! im OBSESSED with this game and i recommend it to everyone! Its so much fun to watch the little gourdlets walk around and interact with the items you place and you can even change how they look too!!! This game is so adorable and...
i really really wanted to like this game. i feel like there's not enough to do, especially for a $5 game. i was able to 100% it in about 3 hours (so ~$2/hr), and i just wish there was more to do. the decorations (which are the main mechanic of the game) aren't very varied, and unfortunately the actual gameplay is just that. the last achievement is a GRIND and i felt like i just needed to idle my computer to have my...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Gourdlets scores 83/100 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/2013730/gourdletsReviews 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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