Forage Wizard

Forage Wizard

Worth it · Strategy · 2026

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $6.99.

Length
9.5h
Value
$0.74/hr
Reviews
87% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
14.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.74
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$6.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
87%
1,588 reviews, as of Sep 27
Released
2026

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Click, craft and collect your way to alchemical mastery. Progress through a branching skill tree and explore the forbidden woods. Collect resources and build machines of magic. Slay monsters, farm crops and automate your production to become the all-powerful Forage Wizard!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.74/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement27% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length9.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 488 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.59. 4 discounts in the 5 months on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Winkeltje: The Little Shop ($14.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Malware ($2.09, scores 74).

Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 488 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026.

The drop-off

100% start to 27% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

72 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 11:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Forage Wizard scores 75/100 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/3868320/forage-wizard
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Reviews 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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Details

DeveloperLost Maxim
PublisherLost Maxim
GenreStrategy
Released2026
Achievements15