Creatures of Ava
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.1h 18h to 100%
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 564 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.55 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
Let your empathy guide you as you play an exciting action-adventure, creature-saver game. Understand and tame the creatures of Ava and let them lead you through a variety of ecosystems – all in the hopes of saving the planet from a life-consuming infection.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Radeon RX580 (8GB) or Nvidia GTX 1660 (6GB), 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
18 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 45 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Breathedge ($2.49, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Cubic Odyssey ($24.99, scores 31).
More about Creatures of Ava
The press gave it 72; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 318 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
67% start to 2% 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
- 11 when we last checked, on Oct 4, 17:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A short but powerful game about how humans really need to stop meddling in planet's affairs. It's very pretty, has soothing music and relaxing atmosphere, the world changes around you - it's amazing to watch. The plot is good, as well as the characters and voice acting, but I can't stress enough how the idea is the absolute resonance with me - humans with their conservationism and getting into the ecosystems...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I had a great time with this cozy and charming adventure game. The creatures were cute and the story was very good in my estimation. I like the strong conservation message that the game starts out with, though the turn at the end was telegraphed a long way out and made sense for the game. My only nits were a few pieces of groan-worthy dialog, a little jank in the jumping animations, and some pathing issues regarding...
I wanted to love this game, but at the end I felt so disappointed. My first issue was the bugginess. Creature collector bots sometimes reappeared or displayed incorrect collection details after fast travel, even though the corresponding creatures were gone from the area and would not respawn. I also had a really irritating bug where in the Dunes, the second piece of every collapsed column acted like it had not been...
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Cite this score
Creatures of Ava scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2304440/creatures-of-avaReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.