Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 28, under the fair line, at $49.99.
- Length
- 42h 150h to 100%
- Value
- $1.19/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 437 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $24.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- 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
Explore the wide world of Anthos with the help of your wacky inventor friend Doc Jr. and many others! It’ll be up to you to revive the Harvest Goddess and the Harvest Sprites, as well as reconnect all of the villages of Anthos with each other! Farm all around Anthos using the improved Expando-Farm!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 or over, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
11 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Disney Dreamlight Valley ($39.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Spirit of the Island ($14.99, scores 18).
More about Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos
6 of the 371 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 358 have a larger share.
Finishing takes 42 hours; clearing it takes 150, which is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to <1% 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
- Players online
- 23 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 16:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Cute but feels unfinished and NPCs aren't very memorable. It's open world but the world feels very empty?
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is full of technical issues. Ever since the start, the game contantly crashes on me (I even hav to redo the tutorial a couple of times). I managed to get past the tutorial eventually but now the game crashes on a daily basis (often multiple times per day) which makes gameplay repetitive and tiresome. My computer meets and exceeds the minimum requirements listed by Steam to run the game so the game should...
Definitely not a perfect game, but has a very enjoyable gameplay loop. I would overall recommend to Harvest Moon fans as I have a lot of fun with myself, although I have a couple main critiques to keep in mind; -Visually, it feels boring. NPCs look VERY similar outside of love interests to the point it's easy to get them confused even with the names. Towns also feel barren even after repair; it feels less 'small...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos scores 28/100 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/2140650/harvest-moon-the-winds-of-anthosReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.