Morphopolis
Fair · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $2.66/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Morphopolis is about transformation and discovery. Morphopolis takes you on a puzzle adventure through a fantastical insect world. Starting as an aphid grub, you embark on an epic journey of metamorphosis toward your spawning ground.
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How to read this
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The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.19. 81 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hidden Folks ($14.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Grim Legends 2: Song of the Dark Swan ($14.99, scores 60).
1 of the 402 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 1,667 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
36% start to 18% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Morphopolis, developed by Dan Walters and Ceri Williams and published by Dan Walters, is a small, atmospheric puzzle adventure that leans more toward visual storytelling and exploration than traditional gameplay challenge. Set within a stylized microscopic ecosystem, the game invites players into a world of insects, plants, and organic structures, all presented through a soft, painterly lens. Rather than focusing on...
Borderline recommandation because of original and beautiful art style. Slow and clunky movement. Not obvious which screens you can exit from. Mostly a hidden object game. Rated lower because of infuriating last game puzzle you cannot save at. You have to replay the whole chapter if you quit. No actual ending. Morphopolis is short and it took around 3 hours, not 6. The average on How Long to Beat is 2.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Morphopolis scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/314020/morphopolisThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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