Whispering Willows
Fair · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews▼
- 82% of 1,908
- Critics
- 64 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.7h
- To 100%
- 3.1h 1.1x the story
- Finish
- 18% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 20
Price and sales
- Sales
- 87 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2021
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
41% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 87 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 22 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, In Other Waters ($14.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($7.99, scores 44).
More about Whispering Willows
The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 82 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 425 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 55 percent of the 166 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Games like this are hard to judge on face value alone. When you take more common, action oriented titles, it can be easier to tell from just a minute or two of uninterrupted gameplay footage if a game is going to be worth your time or not. But slower paced, narrative focused titles, like Whispering Willows, are considerably harder to figure out from just viewing a short trailer. Games like this are driven by their...
2 more reviews
It was very simplistic, and not quite a puzzle game. However, I like ghost stories, it was nice in that short play time.
Recommended Playtime: ~2-3 hours Whispering Willows is a charming, atmospheric 2D adventure that leans much more into spooky aesthetics than actual horror. The core mechanic of switching into a spirit form to converse with ghosts, reach hidden areas, and solve puzzles is a neat concept. The hand-drawn art style is beautiful and the story is surprisingly engaging, though the gameplay itself is very simple. The...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Interact with the spirits of the dead, solve the puzzles of the mysterious mansion and help Elena find her missing father in the horror/adventure puzzle game: Whispering Willows.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series, 2.3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Whispering Willows scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/288060/whispering-willowsReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.