Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$5.34BANGER
- Length
- 4.4h 5.6h to 100%
- Value
- $3.41/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 837 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.34 or less.
Buy now or wait
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
A short, fully voiced, story-first adventure across two worlds. Rearrange words into platforms in Izzy’s diary, then wield word magic to shape your path in the fantasy she writes. Gentle puzzles, watercolour wonder, and a bittersweet story of family, loss, and healing.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics Card with support for DirectX 11, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 53 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $5.34, a level the record has reached 29 times.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Celeste ($4.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Degrees of Separation ($1.99, scores 51).
More about Lost Words: Beyond the Page
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
60% start to 33% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Let's all take a moment to mourn the forgotten, broken, or unremarkable childhoods of all those who gave Lost Words a negative review.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lost Words: Beyond the Page scores 67/100 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/599610/lost-words-beyond-the-pageReviews 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.