Aurora Hills: Chapter 1

Aurora Hills: Chapter 1

Worth it · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
1.9h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
94% positive
Length
1.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
2.2h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
94%
3,779 reviews, as of Sep 26
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Integrated GFX Card, 1.5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 is the first part in series of point and click puzzle adventure games. Follow the journey of Ethan Hill, a park ranger tasked with investigating strange disappearances from the region to uncover the mystery of Aurora Hills!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length1.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cloud Climber (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats The Old Tree (free, scores 75).

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

20 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 28, 12:48 UTC.

Players

20 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 12:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Aurora Hills: Chapter 1 scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 3,779 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/2762230/aurora-hills-chapter-1
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Reviews 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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Details

DeveloperNovaSoft Interactive Ltd.
PublisherNovaSoft Interactive Ltd.
GenreNarrative
Released2024