Rusty Lake: Roots
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.99.
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X 9.0c compatible video card, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Experience the beginning and end of characters' lives and build your own family tree! Rusty Lake: Roots is the second premium point-and-click adventure by the creators of the Cube Escape series and Rusty Lake Hotel.
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
The value story
November 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $1.01. It has been discounted 72 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 44 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake Hotel ($1.99, scores 96) beats it on value, while it beats Cube Escape: Paradox (free, scores 93).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $6.62. It costs $3.99.
The press gave it 75; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 22-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 465 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, 80 percent of the 326 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
At 4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
87% start to 17% 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
60 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 19:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
Cite this score
Rusty Lake: Roots scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/532110/rusty-lake-rootsReviews 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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