Year Walk
Worth it · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $5.99.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Pixel Shader 2.0, 256 MB, 1.1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Venture out into the dark woods where strange creatures roam, on a vision quest set in 19th century Sweden. Solve and decipher cryptic puzzles, listen for clues, and learn about mysterious folklore creatures in the built-in encyclopedia as you seek to foresee your future.
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 $2.99, set in June 2014. It has been discounted 5 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 96 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats The Moon Sliver ($1.99, scores 42).
None of the 285 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 391 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
18% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
+graphics +atmosphere +music -bad gameplay (too much of a walking slideshow to see if something changed) -obtuse puzzles -terrible achievements I wish you could actually move around in 3D like a walking sim but can't fault an old mobile port though. If it wasn't for the post game content with the real ending I would've given this a thumbs down but it makes up for it. The journal pages should've been tightened and be...
Year Walk is one of those rare games that feels less like a playthrough and more like a haunting. It's a short experience on paper, but emotionally it lingers far longer - a winter ritual carved out of folklore, grief, and the strange logic of old stories. You wander through a snow-drowned forest, guided only by the soft crunch of footsteps and the uncanny silhouettes of creatures pulled from Swedish myth. The game...
You have to ask yourself: can folklore and a nice atmosphere alone carry a game for you? If the answer is "Yes!", then this game might be for you. Because Year Walk lives almost entirely off its folklore. It lives off giving you a small glimpse into Sweden's mythological creatures, teaching you a bit about the Årsgång and letting you experience a pseudo-folkloristic story. For me, that simply wasn't enough, and it...
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Cite this score
Year Walk scores 69/100 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/269050/year-walkReviews 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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