Meltopia
Worth it · Strategy · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 5h
- Value
- $1.40/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 Gb dedicated video card, shader model 3.0+, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
A minimalist game where you melt snow with a heat cannon to explore a mysterious frozen world. Uncover glacial secrets, collect valuable resources and ancient artifacts — and ultimately find and assemble the remains of an ancient Mammoth.
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 $4.19. That was May 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 5 months tracked here, most recently in June 2026.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Animal Shelter: Prologue (free, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Mon Bazou ($15.99, scores 66).
This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 182 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
98% start to 30% 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
39 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 18:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Meltopia scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3601800/meltopiaReviews 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 Oct 1.
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