Child of Light
Worth it · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.49.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $0.40/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Aurora, a young girl from 1895 Austria, awakens on the lost fairytale continent of Lemuria. To return home she must fight against the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night, who have stolen the sun, the moon and the stars. At stake is not only Lemuria, but Aurora’s true destiny.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 92 in the 13 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $4.49 at 70 percent off still sits 20 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 74. With it, 84.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Shadowrun: Hong Kong - Extended Edition ($19.99, scores 69).
Critics scored it 77. Players sit 14 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
5 of the 691 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 1,461 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Players
12 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Child of Light is a perfect game to me. The art is beautiful and it is rightfully a cult classic. This game was made with so much love it's easy for anyone to see.
I'm playing my second run through of the game (ok, it's been 10 years, does it count as a second run through?) and I think it holds up. I like the turn-based combat but not style, I like the art work and the characters. Definitely recommend. This game was also my first steam purchase, so I have soft spot for it
I loved this game when i played it over 10 years ago & I still do. Ubisoft, however, makes this game unplayable & I can't recommend it if it's not able to open on PC.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Child of Light scores 84/100 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/256290/child-of-lightThe 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 Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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