Valiant Hearts: Coming Home

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home

Skip · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 11, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
3h 4h to 100%
Value
$5.00/hr
Reviews
63% of 560 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Engagement27% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$5.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews63% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMUplay account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 496 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Valiant Hearts: Coming Home continues the story started with the award-winning Valiant Hearts: The Great War. This sequel continues and concludes the story of these ordinary people thrust into the extraordinary circumstances of World War I.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 950 2GB, AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 4GB. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 16 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Type:Rider ($4.99, scores 56) and Creepy Tale ($4.99, scores 66) both outscore it.

More about Valiant Hearts: Coming Home

Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 496 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,627 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 169 have a larger share.

The drop-off

48% start to 27% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Bit of a let down compared to the first game. A lot shorter and not as many puzzles more of fetch quest each level and the same mini games. Still worth a play through when its on sale
josh48hamonRecommendedafter 3.0hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
A beautiful and emotional follow-up to Valiant Hearts. ❤️ The hand-drawn visuals are charming, the puzzles are enjoyable, and the story once again captures the human side of war with memorable characters and touching moments. Short but meaningful, and definitely worth playing if you enjoyed the first game.
Rice-wOoRecommendedafter 5.8hAug 2026Read on Steam
I am so happy to have finally gotten around to playing this game. I feel like it was short, but the story was amazing and it felt great to be back in Valiant Hearts. What a shame and disservice to this game for it to have been locked behind Netflix for so long. If you liked the first Valiant Hearts, this one is worth dipping into.
comedianmastaRecommendedafter 2.8hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Valiant Hearts: Coming Home scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2741360/valiant-hearts-coming-home
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Reviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperUbisoft Da Nang
PublisherUbisoft
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24