Wandersong

Wandersong

Worth it · Narrative · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $10.83.

Length
9.4h
Value
$2.13/hr
Reviews
95% positive
It needs 46% off ($10.83) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
11.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.13
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
3,909 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
82
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Not that good, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

A musical platforming adventure with an emotional story. Play as a silly bard and use music to interact with everything on a journey around the world. Along the way you'll explore, solve puzzles, and meet a huge cast of characters!
Description from the Steam store page.

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
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement21% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length9.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 366 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in December 2021. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 8 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $10.83, a level the record has reached 28 times.

On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Chicory: A Colorful Tale ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Figment ($19.99, scores 48).

82 from critics against 95 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

Steam's global achievement data puts 21 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 366 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

43% start to 21% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 22:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

An extremely wholesome and sweet, if not simple game about a bard and his witch friend going on a quest to prevent the world from ending. Gameplay involves using a music wheel to cause specific environmental effects to solve some fairly easy puzzles. The negative reviews are ridiculous, I never had a single issue with the performance except for the single instance where I accidentally dropped the resolution without...
quibi001Recommendedafter 9.7hAug 2026Read on Steam
I really enjoyed Wandersong and it made me cry. It is just a charming, chill little adventure where the powers of optimism and singing apparently have the power to do almost anything. The music is fantastic (no surprise there), the comedy is great and the characters are so heartfelt that I genuinely found myself cheering, laughing and crying out loud on multiple occasions. 13hrs to 100%, so not the longest game in...
ClomsyRecommendedafter 13hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Wandersong scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/530320/wandersong
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+13
Critics
82
Players
95
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 3,909 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWishes Ultd.
PublisherGreg Lobanov
GenreNarrative
Released2018
Achievements75