GNOG

GNOG

Worth it · Narrative · 2018

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.62.

Length
1.9h
Value
$5.26/hr
Reviews
92% positive
It needs 64% off ($3.62) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
2.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$5.26
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
92%
1,081 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Dedicated graphics card with 1GB memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

GNOG is a tactile 3D puzzle game about exploring whimsical monster heads and the secret worlds inside them. Filled with eye-catching designs, lively interactions, and a rich, reactive soundtrack, the hand-crafted heads come to life as you grab, poke, spin, pull, and play with each charming contraption.
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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement37% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$5.26/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length1.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 252 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $2.49, set in November 2019. 39 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $3.62, a level the record has reached 4 times.

On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Morphopolis ($3.99, scores 62).

Steam's global achievement data puts 37 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 252 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.

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

The drop-off

71% start to 37% 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

Players

3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 11:52 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
GNOG scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/290510/gnog
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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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKO_OP
PublisherKO_OP
GenreNarrative
Released2018
Achievements20