Stardew Valley
BANGER · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $14.99. Typically $8.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.28/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 1,048,594
- Critics
- 89 players 9 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% RPG
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 53.4h
- To 100%
- 172.6h 3.2x the story
- Achievements
- 49
Price and sales
- Sales
- 60 on record
- Typical cut
- 33% off
- Steam low
- $7.49 February 2021
- Sale every
- 51d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 53,427 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 22% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 60 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 33 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Littlewood ($14.99, scores 88) and Staxel ($19.99, scores 54).
$79.98 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Stardew Valley
89 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
10 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,872 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,390 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 17,287 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, 173 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
1,048,594 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $10.49 (30% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
this game is making me CrrAAzzZZyyyy 10/10 you guys should play. it'll teleport to the future and you can feel you're ACTUALLY INSIDE the game.
2 more reviews
Wholesome game. It has a power of totally captivating you by the simpliest of tasks and routines. Yes, the game about farming (even though its a video game only) can be a bit exhausting at times, as you feel the urge to be as productive as possible, days seem short, time runs too fast, and there is still so mush left to do! The little farmer has no days off and works hard from 6 o'clock in the morning till 2AM, but...
I've been having a great experience playing this game, initially introduced through my friends who also play it by joining a multiplayer world, I then eventually made my own world and had so much fun with taking care of my lovely farm, decorating it and the aspect of being able to date some of the characters is amazing, though I wish they didn't feel like generic npcs after a while. Other than that it is a very...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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?
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Stardew Valley scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/413150/stardew-valleyReviews 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 Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.