Princess Maker Refine
Skip · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 4h 21.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 437 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each 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
About the game
"Princess Maker" pioneered the raising simulation genre with its innovative "raising a daughter" system. The concept of taking in a 10-year-old girl and nurturing her into a mature woman through the player's love and care was groundbreaking at the time and remains popular today.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 32MB or greater graphics card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
63 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Internet Cafe Simulator ($0.99, scores 35) beats it on value, while it beats Pizza Connection 3 ($1.99, scores 0).
More about Princess Maker Refine
Of the 211 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 37 percent of the 100 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 4 hours. Doing everything runs 22, 5.4 times as long.
The drop-off
80% start to 2% 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 Oct 12, 23:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Gameplay 2 Visuals 1 Sound 0 Vibes 1 My Discretion 2 Overall 6/10 The game gets dull when you're grinding for endings, but if you play it normally its fun enough. The second playthrough is better than the first since you'll have you footing by then. At the very least it inspired me thinking of all the ways i would fix things. Play it muted.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
7/10 これを読めばこのゲームをプレイできる I'm being very generous to this game. It probably deserves a 5 or 6, but i really want to like this game. There is a beauty to PC98 games. Anime games before 2000 in general had unmatched art and were bold in their content. For the most part this is exactly what I want out of a rerelease. Changes are (or were) minimal and don't effect the art style, at least for the most part. A younger...
this game was frustrating and fiddly and the errantry made me want to kms but i can't pretend i didn't feel my heart swell with pride when my girl became queen. truly an accurate parenting experience. anyway don't play this unless you hate yourself
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Princess Maker Refine scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/583040/princess-maker-refineReviews 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.