Botanicula
Worth it · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.41/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 6,727
- Critics
- 82 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.4h
- To 100%
- 5h 1.5x the story
- Achievements
- 53
Price and sales
- Sales
- 86 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.94 February 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 10 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
79% start to 18% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 86 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.15. The record reaches that level 86 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 7 percent. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CHUCHEL ($2.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Samorost 2 ($4.99, scores 60).
More about Botanicula
The press gave it 82; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 437 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 568 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Very interesting game. It attracted me because I love biology. I liked all the different creatures and I enjoyed every bit. I like the achievements indicating who you meet. Although i did not get all of them, i am still happy for finishing this game. The gameplay was excellent and did not need to use alot of help.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Humor-filled indie adventure game created by the makers of Machinarium and Samorost.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 553 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Botanicula scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/207690/botaniculaReviews 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 Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.