Bloomtown: A Different Story
Worth it · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2024.
- Length
- 15.8h
- Value
- $0.63/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 60% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($12.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($9.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 GTS / Radeon HD 5750 or better, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bloomtown: A Different Story is a narrative JRPG mixing turn-based combat, monster taming and social RPG set in a seemingly pleasant 1960s Americana world. Join Emily and her group of friends to save their cozy town from the demonic creatures that live in the hearts of its residents!
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
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in April 2026. It has been discounted 19 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $9.99 at 60 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 60. With it, 70.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Eastward ($24.99, scores 61).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 15.8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 509 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
95% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
45 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 15:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
My goodness, what to say about this game. I had my doubts I'd like it at first as I'm not traditionally someone who likes the turn-based combat games. But Bloomtown pleasantly surprised me in how entertaining it was. Without giving too many spoilers, you get to garden, craft, cook, and do fun activities around the town and everything you do is to work toward being better dealing with the enemies in the game. You get...
I love this game! You know how people always say "i had to keep playing just a little longer and then hours went by"? Well ive never said that, but thats what happened. So cute, so fun to explore, lots of choices, and i even want to replay it to see what happens if I make different decisions!
It's like Persona, only... not as good. Rough around the edges in a lot of ways.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Bloomtown: A Different Story scores 70/100 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/2445990/bloomtown-a-different-storyReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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