Yog-Sothoth’s Yard
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $10.99.
- Length
- 34.9h
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
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
- 25% ($8.24)
- Last discount ended
- 8 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Manage a hotel and hire employees including Death, a dragon, a Spirit Hunter, and a bioroid maid. Build your wealth through various means and refine your strategies based on the predictions of Oracles. All employees can be romanced depending on your choices.
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
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $7.69. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 26 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cattails: Wildwood Story ($4.59, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Pathless Woods ($15.99, scores 36).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 698 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 570 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 411 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
98% start to 18% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
338 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 11:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Yog-Sothoth's Yard mixes visual novel n sim management together, packed full of Lovecraftian vibes. This weird little hybrid hits so different n fresh, def worth a rec. But the flaws are pretty obvious too. Neither the writing nor the gameplay depth feels properly polished. Story's got big grand lore behind it, but that stream-of-consciousness style makes it real hard to lock in on the core point. Gameplay-wise...
I'm the richest person in this world, no one can outbid me. Didn't think being a hotel manager would come with this many problems. Fun managing aspect to it as it does take some time to learn and requires a little problem solving unless you abuse the alchemy system. Story is good with only a few parts that seemed rushed. Gameplay takes sometime if your going for all the endings but otherwise could be done in a few...
I originally wrote a review at just under 4h of playtime and said I was probably barely scratching the surface of what this game had on offer. I now have 26h of playtime, and that includes save-scumming for endings and various achievements, without having even touched New Game+ for the achievements I'm missing yet. I can therefore say I was definitely right in my initial thoughts. Now, how you feel about that...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2194530/yog-sothoth-s-yardReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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