Landnama
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $13.99.
- Length
- 3.8h 28.4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.68/hr
- Reviews
- 76% of 475 positive
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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
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About the game
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Support for OpenGL 3.1, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
32 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Odd Realm ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Dice Legacy ($14.99, scores 20).
More about Landnama
4 of the 411 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 28, 7.5 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
82% start to 3% 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 18, 01:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
You wanna play Civ, but without all those pesky mechanics like diplomacy, war, or a whole lot of choices? Well have I got a game for you. Played for a total of 4 hours, beat the 'saga', and felt like I basically got a load of the entire game. You just need to make sure that you've got the resources at the end of each year and then keep plugging along. Explore, build, repeat. All around a chill game to play when you...
2 more reviews
It's a small repetitive game which I really enjoy. It doesn't have much going on but if you like this kind of games were you try to test yourself to complete it faster or score higher (or getting all the achievements) then this is a good game for you.
Landnama, developed and published by Sonderland, is a strategy experience that strips the genre down to its essentials and rebuilds it around tension, scarcity, and careful decision-making. Rather than focusing on expansion through conquest or complex economic systems, it centers everything on survival in a harsh environment inspired by early Icelandic settlement. The result is a game that feels more like a...
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Cite this score
Landnama scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2339040/landnamaReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.