The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
BANGER · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.93/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 60,360
- Critics
- 79 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.5h
- To 100%
- 10.5h 1.4x the story
- Finish
- 44% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 16
Price and sales
- Sales
- 29 on record
- Typical cut
- 29% off
- Steam low
- $6.29 June 2026
- Sale every
- 33d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 101 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
65% start to 44% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $6.29, set in June 2026. 29 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 29 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Heads Will Roll: Reforged ($24.99, scores 48) and Pentiment ($19.99, scores 82).
$10.62 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
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 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,295 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 2,564 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
first chinese vn, thanks devs for making such a wonderful game. i cried like 3 times, good game 👍
2 more reviews
im full now thank for the food , cook so hard that my tongue become stew ,good short story
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty : ( Worth the Journey ) ⚠️ SPOILERS AHEAD! I'm honestly not usually a fan of this kind of dark story. There were even times when I had to stop playing for a while because some parts were just too heavy for me. But I kept going, and after finishing it, I can honestly say: It was worth it. The story follows Liang, a bandit who ends up escorting four girls during a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-dynastyReviews 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 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.