My Little Universe
Worth it · Action · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 26.1h
- Value
- $0.57/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 630, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Stranded on a barren moon with nothing but your tools, fuelless ship, and celestial powers of creation, you are destined to recreate what was once lost and be the hero of your own Little Universe! Don't forget to call in up to three of your friends to join your journey in the Splitscreen Co-op Mode!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. 27 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 55 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Core Keeper ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Interstellar Rift ($19.99, scores 19).
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 26.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 449 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 126 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
94% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 26.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
65 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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My Little Universe scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2328750/my-little-universeThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 22.
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