LUNA The Shadow Dust
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $6.66/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GT440 or HD5570, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack.
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 $13.99, set in October 2021. It has been discounted 75 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. On the same math Gorogoa ($14.99, scores 72) and Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 418 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
95% start to 5% 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
What players say
It was a short puzzle game. The game, the story, and especially the music were all wonderful. The atmosphere pulled me in from start to finish, and everything worked together to tell a touching story. The puzzles were well designed and not frustratingly difficult, but satisfying to solve without needing to look up hints. This game is definitely worth playing.
Sure, if you're looking for a low-stakes cozy game with pretty artwork and a cute animal companion. A lot of other puzzles are pretty monotonous, though. More time is spent going back and forth than actually solving puzzles, and some of the achievements are counted weirdly so they aren't ones you'd stumble upon easily in regular game play (e.g., not just going through a door 20 times... but specifically the *wrong*...
This game was not for me. I personally like games with more challenging puzzles. This wasn't that. This games qualities are more in the artwork, which is fantastic but again, not why I play games. I didn't really even understand the story but that's probably on me since I checked out early on that end. Most of the puzzles were a variation of others I have seen ...not much originality there. I did think the shadow...
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Cite this score
LUNA The Shadow Dust scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/465100/luna-the-shadow-dustReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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