Plantera
Worth it · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $1.36/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 80% ($0.59)
- Last discount ended
- 10 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
In Plantera you build your own garden and watch it grow with new plants, bushes, trees and animals. As you play and expand your garden you will attract Helpers, round blue creatures that will help you with your harvesting tasks.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.44, set in April 2023. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 110 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tiny Pasture ($4.07, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Tap Heroes ($2.99, scores 33).
None of the 444 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 659 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.2 hours. Doing everything runs 14, 6.5 times as long.
Players
About 15 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Plantera scores 78/100 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/421040/planteraReviews 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 25.
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