Old Man's Journey
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Old Man’s Journey, a soul-searching puzzle adventure, tells a story of life, loss, and hope. Interacting with the world around you, you'll shape the landscape to create the old man's path forward. Experience heartache and hope as you embark on a heartfelt journey through a sunkissed world.
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
The lowest price on record is $1.59, set in July 2023. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gorogoa ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats LUNA The Shadow Dust ($19.99, scores 53).
76 from critics against 87 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 538 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 1,692 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
3% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 1.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
This is an absolutely beautiful and charming game. The pace is on the slow side, which normally I'd find boring, but with this game I find it relaxing, and there is so much going on visually that I did't get bored. No dialog, nothing to read, you just use intuition and logic. It gets more challenging as you play but not so hard it's frustrating. I played on an Mac Airbook, and you control everything with mouse...
From an art style sense, this game is beautiful. The hand drawn art and animation is a pretty site to see. From a gameplay sense, the game is quite basic. You're ultimately moving landforms around for your old man to navigate the screen. There's some element of puzzle design in this, but it's never too difficult. Narratively, the game manages to tell a story without any dialogue. Unfortunately, I didn't really find...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Old Man's Journey scores 55/100 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/581270/old-man-s-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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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