The Abandoned Planet
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.49.
- Length
- 4.3h 5.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.04/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 266 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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
About the game
A throw-back, retro-inspired, point and click adventure with chunky and beautiful pixel art
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 470 de 1 GB/AMD HD 7870 de 2 GB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 26 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $4.49 at 70 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games closest to it, Whispers of a Machine ($14.99, scores 66) and Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58) both come in lower.
The drop-off
91% start to 8% 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
What players say
Really enjoyed this game and look forward to more in this universe. Puzzles started very easy then got harder, but never actually hard. I do wish there was an ingame notebook or camera as you need to remember symbol combinations quite a lot and my memory isn't crash hot, I ended up using my phone to take photos of the screen haha. The only other quibble was the backtracking in Act 3 grew a bit tiresome due to some...
1 more review
The narrating feels like Dora the Explorer lol, it is very funny (it's bad for immersing). The cut-scene animations are good and smooth, but some of them ended very abruptly. Overall not too bad for a game made by one person, the puzzles are very easy and straight forward.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
The Abandoned Planet scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2014470/the-abandoned-planetReviews 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.