Night in the Woods
Worth it · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.29.
- Length
- 8.9h
- Value
- $2.25/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $9.99, set in June 2020. 49 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $12.29 BANGER line 33 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pentiment ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Gorogoa ($14.99, scores 72).
Steam's global achievement data puts 43 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 616 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.9 hours; clearing it takes 25, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
At 8.9 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
71% start to 43% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
53 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
One of those pieces that sticks with you. I remember picking this up as a kid and getting this overwhelming feeling I was playing this game too early, that this would be a very special game for an older version of myself, so I put it down. Now that I am around the age Mae is (probably a little older) I can say wholeheartedly that I'm glad I waited. The game is beautiful, the music is catchy, the writing is both...
absolutely beautiful game, the art style, the characters, the hidden details you wouldn't even notice!!! this game warms my heart so much, duders!!! :3
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Night in the Woods scores 76/100 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/481510/night-in-the-woodsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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