Voodoo Garden

Voodoo Garden

Skip · Strategy · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 47, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
18h 22.8h to 100%
Value
$0.17/hr
Reviews
76% of 859 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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
Value$0.17/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 278 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

Welcome to the Voodoo Garden! You're owner of a little hut in a bustling swamp. With the help of little spirits you can earn powers and gold by producing various voodoo supplies.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 84 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 66 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Tiny Pasture ($5.99, scores 86) outscores it, and so does Plantera ($2.99, scores 78). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Voodoo Garden

Of the 278 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

65% start to 9% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

I'm not sure what I was expecting from this game, but after playing for a while I know it isn't for me. Building a garden to produce items is one thing, but having to click every one of these is another. As far as I can see, there is no option to hire a helper to harvest the plants. Every flower and, in general, all items need to be clicked by the player themselves. For a few minutes, that might be ok to do so, but...
SnowNot recommendedafter 1.8hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Worst idle game I've ever played. Not at all idle, because nobody will auto-collect the animal currencies for you.
skelet0rNot recommendedafter 38hMay 2026Read on Steam
Too active to be comfortably idle, too boring to be active. If spirits could be upgraded to catch wildlife it'd be aight
SolusNot recommendedafter 67hJan 2026Read 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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Voodoo Garden scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/502770/voodoo-garden
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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 28, 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

DeveloperM. Hanka
PublisherLiu Lidan
GenreStrategy
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements33