Strayed Lights

Strayed Lights

Skip · Action · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$12.99Skip

On its price record

$9.03Fair

Length
4.2h
Value
$3.09/hr
Reviews
80% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely between Oct 6 and Oct 19, at about $3.89 (70% off). Calls like this were right 80% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 43 days apart.

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
75% ($3.24)
Last discount ended
25 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.09
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$12.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
80%
494 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

Strayed Lights is a colourful action-adventure featuring epic boss fights and a unique parry-based combat system. Shift between colours to repel attacks and strike back. Explore a dreamlike world as you restore your light that was torn by shadows.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement20% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.09/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 79% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length4.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 297 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.24. Its cuts run 65 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blue Fire ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Steelrising ($49.99, scores 23).

Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 297 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026.

The drop-off

95% start to 20% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Strayed Lights scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2162020/strayed-lights
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperEmbers
PublisherEmbers
GenreAction
Released2023
Achievements26