The Greenening
BANGER · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.9h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 950 / Radeon RX 460, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.
A short and wholesome incremental journey about exploring and reawakening a forgotten world. Wash away the ashes to discover the secrets hidden beneath, upgrade your versatile watering abilities, and grow your own cozy space garden.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 4 times in the 5 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Farmer Was Replaced ($7.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Two Point Museum ($29.99, scores 90).
$7.85 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $4.99.
Of the 315 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
99% start to 49% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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The Greenening scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3441280/the-greeneningThe 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 3, price as of Sep 22.
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