PARASiTE FLOWER
Skip · RPG · 2024
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 0.4h 0.9h to 100%
- Value
- $7.48/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 262 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
PARASiTE FLOWER is a beautiful yet disturbing side scroller game where you slowly uncover the story of Ari.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Open GL compliant video card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 14 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 43 percent on value. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 62 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Underhero ($14.99, scores 65) and Word Game: Episode 0 (free, scores 89) both outscore it.
More about PARASiTE FLOWER
4 of the 241 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 234 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 97 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.4 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 2.3 times as long.
What players say
This game is the literal definition of "art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comforted." If you don't get it or don't like it, it's because you haven't been through it. Love this game with all my heart. That said, there are a few bugs, but it's an indie game, so there isn't too much I expect in terms of glitching. It's fantastic otherwise and the art is stunning
2 more reviews
I liked this game, it was short, but great art and with great psychological vibes.
PARASiTE FLOWER is a small, tightly focused indie horror experience that relies far more on emotional weight and symbolic storytelling than on traditional gameplay systems. Developed and published by Catowo, it presents itself as a looping, side-scrolling narrative, but what it ultimately delivers is something closer to an interactive psychological vignette. It's the kind of game that doesn't try to entertain in a...
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Cite this score
PARASiTE FLOWER scores 33/100 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/2855480/parasite-flowerReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.