Valley
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $4.59, only fair at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.7h
- Value
- $4.05/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 650 or better, Radeon HD 7770 or better, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Explore the vast and beautiful world of Valley using the power of the L.E.A.F. suit: a fierce exoskeleton that grants exceptional speed and agility along with the phenomenal ability to manipulate the life and death of all living things.
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How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was December 2021. It has been discounted 77 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. 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 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $4.59. The record reaches that level 50 times.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outer Wilds ($24.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats The Beast Inside ($24.99, scores 47).
Of the 447 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 717 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.7 hours; clearing it takes 11, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
78% start to 3% 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
2 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
Really fun physics-based movement. Loved to run, jump and swing throughout the forest, and the life-death mechanics are very creative, poetic even.
This is a nice short game for those times you don't want too much story but also not balls to the walls. Platforming but gentle. The music is absolutely beautiful. I finished this in a single evening after work and it was just the relaxing yet intriguing thing I needed.
Core memory game. Beautiful scenery. Amazing music. Fast engaging movement and mechanics. Decent simple adventure story.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Valley scores 65/100 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/378610/valleyThe 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 Sep 23, price as of Sep 24.
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