Lowglow
Worth it · Narrative · 2015
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 3.2h 8.4h to 100%
- Value
- $1.25/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 470 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 942 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
Lowglow - an audiovisual puzzle journey. Glowingly beautiful graphics combined with a dynamic audio environment make sure that Lowglow is an unforgettable, mind-bending experience for you!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 470, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
46 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 135 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Path of Giants ($8.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Call of the Sea ($4.99, scores 75).
More about Lowglow
3.2 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
14% start to 5% 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
What players say
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Lowglow Review Audio/Visual - Excellent 4.9/5 The audiovisual experience is downright delightful and very well integrated within the gameplay aspects. Sadly, the ending note for the replay scene repeats itself and thus, could have used at least 2 more versions for variety, as there are quite a few levels to go through. One thing that stood out to me were the small shadow creatures present within several of the...
Lowglow is a simple, shallow mobile-app like physics puzzle game of very low quality. Gameplay consists of swiping your finger on your iPhone screen to draw lines which balls bounce off. The objective is to draw sufficient lines on your iPhone screen at the right angles so that the balls bounce into the goal area. That's all there is to it, shallow and pointless... a mobile app in all but the poor decision making...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lowglow scores 76/100 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/405950/lowglowReviews 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.