Stardew Valley
BANGER · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99.
- Length
- 53.4h
- Value
- $0.28/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
February 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $7.49. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 59 in the 11 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. 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.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Staxel ($19.99, scores 54) and Dinkum ($19.99, scores 86).
$79.98 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $14.99.
89 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
15 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,873 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 17,237 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
53.4 hours to finish it, 172 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
Still 50.7K concurrent players, 10 years in.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
63% start to 2% 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
50.7K 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
My favorite game of all time!! CA is awesome for continuing to push out updates after years this game's been released, as well as the modding community.
Cute little game about building a farm, living life, and gradually dating everyboy in town.
I love this game because you have free will, theres no path carved in stone. You can do so many things and make your own little goals. This game makes me feel productive even though im lazy, its almost like a slice of life style game.
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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Stardew Valley scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/413150/stardew-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 10, price as of Sep 24.
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