Lost Horizon
Worth it · Narrative · 2010
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 10.1h 11.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 554 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
1936: Soldiers of the Third Reich roam the world seeking occult weapons for their insane plans of conquest. When Fenton Paddock, a former British soldier and hapless smuggler, is asked to look for his friend Richard, who went missing in Tibet, he has no idea that this search will lead him across three continents to a secret that could...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9-compatible AGP or PCI Express 64 MB video card or better, 4.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 92 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, King's Quest (free, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Day of the Tentacle Remastered ($14.99, scores 72).
More about Lost Horizon
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
None of the 230 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 19:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It plays like a classic adventure movie turned into a puzzle game. It may not be flashy, polished, or especially innovative, but its familiar charm still makes it enjoyable throughout.
2 more reviews
Lost Horizon is a small, unjustly overlooked gem, which is surprising considering how much I enjoy adventure games. It completely flew under my radar for years, and it really shouldn't have. The game is quite long and consistently enjoyable, with a light, adventurous tone that clearly echoes classic Indiana Jones-style storytelling. It takes the player through numerous exotic, diverse and visually appealing...
This is a somewhat slight, but decent enough adventure game. It didn't wow me, but made for an entertaining few hours. I had been looking for a lightish game to play in the late evenings to relax, something with a decent story but not too heavy gameplay. This seem to fit the bill. Gameplay wise it is your standard point and click adventure, click to interact with objectives, combine items or use them on objects in...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Lost Horizon scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40350/lost-horizonReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.