LEAVES - The Journey
Fair · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $0.79. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.7h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.21/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 742 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
About the game
Travel to the mystic lands of Mononino and help the Treefruities to recover the lost leaves of their home tree. Search for clues to master the many puzzles and challenges on your journey.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX9c compatible, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 91 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.79 at 84 percent off still sits 61 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bulb Boy ($8.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats realMyst: Masterpiece Edition ($17.99, scores 56).
More about LEAVES - The Journey
This site sampled 374 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
50% start to 10% 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
What players say
A beautiful, atmospheric puzzle game with very good puzzles. Will without walkthrough take probably on the order of 8 hours. Grab it together with the successor "LEAVES - The return" which is just as good -- and just as outrageously cheap when on sale. Pretty much "hidden" gems and much recommended. Do use your GPU driver to limit FPS to e.g. 60 lest the game happily renders hundreds or even thousands of frames per...
1 more review
I say yes for the vibes, environments, and the old school point and click mechanics. The visual style is similar to the older Amanita games like Botanicula and Machinarium. That said, Leaves is incredibly old school. There are no hints or hand holding. Even when I used the walkthrough, I didn't understand the solution or how they came to that conclusion. So I say no, because I had to rely too much on the walkthrough...
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Cite this score
LEAVES - The Journey scores 58/100 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/569800/leaves-the-journeyReviews 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.