Short Trip
Skip · Short indie · 2024
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 47, under the fair line, at $1.99. Worth it at $0.64, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Dec 2024 (lowest $1.19, Oct 2026).
- Length
- 0.1h 0.5h to 100%
- Value
- $19.90/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 303 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.64 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 7 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
A hand-drawn, interactive illustration about a scenic tramway, windswept mountains and cats with places to be.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 256MB video memory, shader model 3.0+, 512 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 7 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 25 percent, about 11 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $0.25, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lushfoil Photography Sim ($7.49, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Isle of Jura ($0.79, scores 13).
More about Short Trip
None of the 280 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 98 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.1 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 5.0 times as long.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Short Trip scores 47/100 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/3187700/short-tripReviews 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.