The Mooseman
Fair · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.7h
- Value
- $4.70/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 500 MB and up, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You are the Mooseman and you have the ability to see all that is hidden to the mortal eye. You are about to visit three layers of this universe - the first one is the Lower World where dead reside…
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.69. That was August 2021. It has been discounted 44 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Nihilumbra ($7.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 371 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 350 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
62% start to 8% 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
Gorgeous and really interesting art style, the music was nice too (except for one part where the beautiful instrumental music cuts out at an awkward place and loops). One major problem I found was that it only had partial controller support so I could control the character with the controller but to go to the menus I had to use the keyboard, which sucked and made gameplay kinda awkward. On top of that I was unable...
I don't know how to classify this game. As some have noted, it's not so much a game as an educational movie-like experience, though I did find there were far more game-like elements than some give it credit for. The appeal lies mostly in learning of another culture through a visual medium that emphasizes said culture. I loved learning of the three worlds and the moosemen, and watching the myths unfold on my screen...
I liked this short game. The ending explained for me what is the nooseman's journey. The singing choir was great. The puzzles are short and simple, only two took more patience to pass.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Mooseman scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/574310/the-moosemanReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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