The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.29.
- Length
- 7.5h
- Value
- $0.84/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
He is a bandit who sells lives. She is a mute girl seeking revenge. In a famine-ravaged ancient China, a ruthless trafficker escorts four girls to a demon's feast. But when a deadly secret is revealed, a cold transaction turns into a journey of redemption. A dark visual novel about an unlikely bond.
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.29, set in June 2026. 27 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 28 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today's $6.29 at 37 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Take the discount away and it is a 86. With it, 95.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Pentiment ($19.99, scores 82) and The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72).
$10.64 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $6.29.
Critics scored it 79. Players sit 15 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 45 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,801 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 2,560 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
65% start to 45% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
181 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
first chinese vn, thanks devs for making such a wonderful game. i cried like 3 times, good game 👍
Really good story! I really love to have an official localization of this game in Vietnamese so other gamer from my country can enjoy this game!
A slightly dark VN that tells an interesting story Pros: -I love morally grey characters hell yeah -Different endings with very different impressions -I love that the focus is mostly on the characters rather than overcomplicating the story -The voice acting is really good Cons: - A lot of the main plot is set in stone, decisions mainly affect the ending. -The description and reviews say it's really dark, because of...
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.
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The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2593370/the-hungry-lamb-traveling-in-the-late-ming-dynastyThe 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 15, price as of Sep 23.
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