Lovely Planet

Lovely Planet

Worth it · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it at $5.99. Typically $1.19 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.

Cost per hour▼
$1.43/hr
ReviewsA
91% of 2,710
Critics
61 players 30 higher
Genre rank
Top 8% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
4.2h
To 100%
14.9h 3.5x the story
Achievements
14

Price and sales

Sales
102 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$0.89 April 2020
Sale every
37d last October 2026
Lowest now $0.59 at Fanaticalall-time low $0.59 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
68% of its genre
Better reviewed
85% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

27% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 102 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Turbo Overkill ($5.99, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats DeadCore ($9.99, scores 58).

More about Lovely Planet

61 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Of the 342 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 631 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 4.2 hours; clearing it takes 15, which is 3.5 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.43/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 342 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

A First Person Shooter Gun Ballet set in a cutesy abstract world. Jump and shoot your way through five worlds full of treacherous enemies with your trusty semi-automatic!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 512 MB, Shader Model 2.0, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Cite this score

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Lovely Planet scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/298600/lovely-planet
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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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+30
Critics61
Players91
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 2,710 Steam player reviews

Details

Developerquicktequila
PublishertinyBuild
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14