Lyca
Fair · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $1.35/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 74% over the last 30 days against 82% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
A small, relaxing, incremental game about restoring a barren wasteland into a lush meadow. Help the magical wolf Lyca run through the land, gather resources, and unlock a vast upgrade tree.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was June 2026. 12 discounts in the 1 year on record. They run about 40 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. On the same math Cornerpond ($2.99, scores 96) and Rusty's Retirement ($6.99, scores 96) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Players rate it 82 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 74 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 521 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 144 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to 33% 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
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 00:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A charming idea, but the grind wears thin. A nice little game for the price, but unfortunately it doesn't explain itself very well. It took me three or four runs to realise that running over the grass turns it blue, which is key to progression. Once you figure it out, the game settles into a slow grind of collecting skills and prestige points. There's something satisfying about gradually restoring the wasteland, but...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lyca scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3421300/lycaReviews 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 Sep 30.
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