LEAVES - The Return
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $0.79. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.7h 3.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 443 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
Mononino and the Treefruities fared well without you - until another disaster scattered the leaves of their home tree. Once more, take on the journey and challenging puzzles along the way.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 91 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 6 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.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. It scores the same as Lost in Play, which costs $19.99. This one is $0.79.
More about LEAVES - The Return
This site sampled 267 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
37% start to 11% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Like its predecessor "Leaves - The journey" this is a beautiful, atmospheric puzzle game with very good puzzles. Will without walkthrough take probably on the order of 8 hours each. On sale they're outrageously cheap, so grab them together: 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 second; it...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
a great puzzle. the essence of the game is to solve all the riddles and collect all the leaves
Like leaves 1 this sports a nice range of various puzzles. However I cannot recommend this as it feels like an inferior game to the first. This game is having more backtracking, some puzzles that must be repeated to traverse. Also there are some none obvious interactibles, two of whom caused some frustration.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
LEAVES - The Return scores 66/100 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/569810/leaves-the-returnReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.