Little Briar Rose

Little Briar Rose

Fair · Narrative · 2016

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.7h 4.5h to 100%
Value
$2.94/hr
Reviews
83% of 231 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 3 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
Engagement39% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.94/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 109 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

Little Briar Rose is a very special, stained glass-styled adventure game inspired by the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

44 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 15 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Machinarium ($19.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats LUNA The Shadow Dust ($19.99, scores 53).

More about Little Briar Rose

Steam's global achievement data puts 39 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The main story runs 1.7 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 2.6 times as long.

The drop-off

49% start to 39% 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

What players say

My friend who I play Counter Strike 2 with said if I post a review on this game and it gets 5000 likes and 5000 Awards that he will buy me a RTX 3080 and 2 Kilos of The lamb ham. So I'm just gonna leave this here Help a brotha ~ ∧_∧ (。・ω・。)つ━☆・*。 ⊂ ノ ・゜+. しーJ °。+ *´¨) .• ´¸.•*´¨) ¸.•*¨) (¸.•´ (¸.•'*
A N T I NRecommendedafter 3.1hSep 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews
It was cute, short, and entertaining in a mindless kind of way. Definitely meant for a younger audience, but there were some 'adult' elements that got a chuckle out of me. The game is definitely not meant to be taken very seriously, so if you're looking for a long deep narrative, it's going to disappoint you. But if you just want to point and click on something to entertain yourself for a couple of hours, it will...
DimcastRecommendedafter 6.2hOct 2023Read on Steam
Delightful little game! I was truly shocked when I lost my first prince. Will definitely play again!
susieshouldbesleepingRecommendedafter 4.0hSep 2023Read 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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Little Briar Rose scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/555290/little-briar-rose
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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 30, 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

DeveloperElf Games
PublisherElf Games
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements17