A Valley Without Wind
Skip · Roguelike · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 7, under the fair line, at $3.74.
- Length
- 13h 58.3h to 100%
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 520 positive
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What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
You choose how to play, and the world of Environ adapts around you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.39, set in July 2016. 47 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. On the same math Vagante ($14.99, scores 73) and ScourgeBringer ($2.54, scores 65) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about A Valley Without Wind
HowLongToBeat players log 13 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 58, 4.5 times as much.
The drop-off
46% 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
What players say
A Valley Without Wind is an ambitious indie action-adventure platformer created and published by Arcen Games. Released in 2012, the game attempts to merge multiple genres into a single large-scale experience, combining procedural exploration, magical combat, light strategy mechanics, and survival elements within a massive dynamically generated world. Rather than guiding players through a strictly linear narrative...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is a game that is hard to suggest for others, unless you are an other who likes it. I love this game. It is a fun game. The music is moody and setting, the aesthetic ugly but fitting. Over-complicated but just the right amount of complexity. It is relaxing yet frustrating. But I like it and have played it off and on for years. Why? I don't know. But try it, if you like it, welcome to the small club of those of...
Janky enough to make you think that there might be something interesting to unearth, but (at least to my tastes) there wasn't.
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Cite this score
A Valley Without Wind scores 7/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/209330/a-valley-without-windReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.