Meadow - A Shelter Game

Meadow - A Shelter Game

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2016

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$6.99Worth it

Typical seasonal cut

$1.7475% off

ReviewsA
89% of 5,944
Genre rank
Top 3% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reach

Watch this gameOne alert at $1.74 or less.

Time and effort

Achievements
137

Price and sales

Sales
55 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$0.49 May 2021
Sale every
55d last October 2026
Lowest now $2.99 at Humbleall-time low $0.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
55% of its genre
Better reviewed
94% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

47% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 55 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Snail Simulator ($4.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles ($24.99, scores 46).

More about Meadow - A Shelter Game

1 of the 439 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,338 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reach750K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Refunds1 of 439 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

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Meadow - A Shelter Game scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/486310/meadow-a-shelter-game
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperMight and Delight
PublisherMight and Delight
GenreMultiplayer
Released2016
Players750Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements137