Meadow - A Shelter Game
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660, ATI Radeon HD 2xxx, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Explore the vast and open landscape as a wild animal. Meadow is an online fable experience that lets old and new fans of the Shelter game series come together and explore a peculiar and wondrous world together.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in May 2021. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 54 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, A Short Hike ($7.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Heaven Island - VR MMO ($1.99, scores 4).
1 of the 439 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,334 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
47% start to <1% 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
Players
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Meadow - A Shelter Game scores 74/100 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/486310/meadow-a-shelter-gameThe 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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