A Little Lily Princess

A Little Lily Princess

Fair · Strategy · 2016

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
6h 13.3h to 100%
Value
$2.50/hr
Reviews
93% of 333 positive
It needs 2% off ($14.75) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.75 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Engagement29% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 115 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

Newly arrived at a boarding school in Victorian England, Sara Crewe uses her love of books and storytelling to build new relationships. But what happens to a fairy-tale princess when she loses everything?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1366x768, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

100 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Super Lesbian Animal RPG ($14.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: True Colors ($17.99, scores 66).

More about A Little Lily Princess

Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The main story runs 6 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 2.2 times as long.

The drop-off

35% start to 29% 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

i played this way back in like 2017ish and i distinctly remember that i cried through most of it, it was like in the span of a single night much of which i just spent bawling. which probably has at least something to do with how i haven't actually read the original novel so i wasn't emotionally prepared for the twist. that said, after this reread, even though i didn't cry it still hits pretty hard, still very good...
Margot VergerRecommendedafter 7.3hMar 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A Little Lily Princess, developed by Hanabira and published by Hanako Games, is a thoughtful and heartfelt visual novel that reinterprets the classic story of A Little Princess through interactive storytelling and gentle yuri romance. Drawing inspiration from Frances Hodgson Burnett's original novel, the game places players in the role of Sara Crewe, a bright and imaginative young girl sent from India to attend a...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 16hFeb 2026Read on Steam
This is a charming little yuri vn, and I liked the life that the (very light) management mechanics gave to the gameplay (especially since there's no choices to be made here beyond who you choose to romance) but as a huge fan of the original book, the story left me feeling pretty hollow. One of the great strengths of the book is the emotional connections that Sara forms, which sustain her through some absolutely...
bespokeMinutiaeNot recommendedafter 4.8hAug 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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A Little Lily Princess scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/449250/a-little-lily-princess
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHanabira
PublisherHanako Games
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements9