Homesick
Skip · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $6.52/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 1,458
- Critics
- 72 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 41% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.3h
- To 100%
- 3.2h 1.4x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 July 2025
- Sale every
- 45d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 62% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 69 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 9 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 41 percent. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($9.99, scores 28).
More about Homesick
Of the 378 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 320 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 61 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I've only finished this game two or three times in the years I've owned it, but I think about it all the time. It's a beautiful, melancholic, contemplative experience that commits to a very bittersweet atmosphere and delivers on it. If you're into thoughtful walking sims and puzzles, and the inherent joy of wandering around crumbling long-abandoned architecture, then this is a good one!
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
As you wander its quiet ruins, the puzzles fade into the background, and solitude becomes the real protagonist. As dream and reality overlap, the game pulls you deeper and deeper. Short, cold, and sharply vivid.
This is probably the slowest I have ever moved in a videogame. I get that this is an atmo/vibe game, but you still have to solve puzzles and moving from point A to B takes ages. It's a shame, because the central puzzle (deciphering the language) was pretty fun and I liked the 'destroyed beauty' setting. Thank god this game is very short (about 2 hours), because the slow walking speed was getting really annoying.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Video card with 512MB of VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Homesick scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/244910/homesickReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.