Palia
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Length
- 75.5h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 70% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 660 / AMD Radeon R9 270 or equivalent, 22 GB of storage. Windows only.
Discover a welcoming world in Palia, a free-to-play fantasy life sim adventure where you can craft, explore, and create the life and home of your dreams. With nearly endless ways to make Palia your home, you’ll find relaxation and joy in every corner of this vibrant, heartwarming world.
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, 100 Christmas Cats (free, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).
Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 70 percent. Something recent has soured the room.
75.5 hours to finish it, 400 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.3 times the campaign.
5.1K players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 28, 15:45 UTC.
The drop-off
46% start to <1% 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
Players
5,074 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 15:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Palia scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 44,463 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2707930/paliaReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.
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