The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams

The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams

Worth it · Narrative · 2016

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99.

Length
2.5h 3.8h to 100%
Value
$1.20/hr
Reviews
85% of 519 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.20/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement48% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 161 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was May 2020. It has been discounted 45 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Enigmatis 2: The Mists of Ravenwood ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala ($14.99, scores 64).

More about The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams

Steam's global achievement data puts 48 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

53% start to 48% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Not as challenging as other games by the same publisher. It's also full of typos and spelling errors.
AlexNot recommendedafter 5.0hJul 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Definitely not the best HOG game out there. The concept and story had so much potential but was poorly executed, the narration wasn't interesting, the tasks didn't always make sense, sometimes it was difficult to figure out what step logically came next, it seemed like some dialogue/clues were missing when you clicked something that required an action, there was a lot of backtracking (thank goodness for the map and...
EzekielNot recommendedafter 6.7hJan 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams scores 70/100 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/429610/the-emerald-maiden-symphony-of-dreams
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Reviews 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 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGogii Games
PublisherArtifex Mundi
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13