Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.70.
- Length
- 9.1h
- Value
- $2.20/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 240 GT or Radeon HD 6570 – 1024 MB (1 gig), 11 GB of storage. Windows only.
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
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The value story
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 62 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 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 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $12.70, a level the record has reached 63 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hollow Knight ($14.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Ori and the Will of the Wisps ($29.99, scores 74).
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 3,036 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 9.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
88% start to 35% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
196 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
I absolutely adore Ori and the Blind Forest From the overall gorgeous art, animation, music and world design to just how fun and slick Ori's movement is to use with one of the greatest platforming mechanics to ever exist, to even its sappy story. There are very few Metroidvania games that click with me, but despite that Ori and the Blind Forest became one of my favorite games of all time. Admittedly it may not for...
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.
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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/387290/ori-and-the-blind-forest-definitive-editionThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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