Escape From Lavender Island
Worth it · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.01.
- Length
- 2.5h 7h to 100%
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 221 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.01 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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 a dream that refuses to end. As Zede Aksis, wander a surreal city that feels both alive and liminal, filled with digital citizens and absurd infrastructure. Can you find an escape? A way out of a world that remembers you better than you remember it?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 750. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 24 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.01. The record reaches that level 13 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, RATSHAKER™ ($2.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Animalia Survival ($19.99, scores 8).
More about Escape From Lavender Island
Finishing takes 2.5 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to 6% 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
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 1, 20:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fearlessly vulnerable, if a little bit poorly optimized. I adore this game. It's unforgivingly weird and manages to weave deep feelings through it's craziness. The kind of feelings all too familiar and easy to relate to - but rarely spoken of. But it's absurdity keeps it from becoming some kind of self-indulgent arthouse piece and rather a ludicrous open world adventure
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Instantly a classic. As soon as you play for the first time you experience a transcendence experience. with every step and action comes a life changing moment.
I don't vibe with this game. I got the bundle and have been playing all the games from Jeremy Couillard. For all of them so far, I was pretty patient with the games and curious to experience what they had to offer, going for achievements and looking to see all the dialogue and strange events. Not so for this game. Lavender Island is ugly, but ugly in a different way than previous games. Those could be gross and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Escape From Lavender Island scores 73/100 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/2164310/escape-from-lavender-islandReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.