FAR: Lone Sails
Worth it · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.87.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 460 / 650m, AMD Radeon HD6570, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.49. That was April 2025. 71 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.87. The record reaches that level 55 times.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Talos Principle ($29.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Deadlight ($14.99, scores 45).
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 15 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 14 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3.1-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,831 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,318 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
3.1 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
At 3.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
83% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
112 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fun game. Very simple mechanics but an interesting story. No VO or deep explanation to the lore but enough can be drawn from the things you come across. Achievements are pretty easy, only need 3 playthroughs and the full play isn't too long. Support the devs, if only for that.
Nice slow paced "puzzle-game". Doesn't take long to finish, but has a nice atmosphere.
It takes 4 playthroughs to get all 14 achievements, but I had fun each time in different ways. I especially loved the aesthetic, I want to drive one of these rigs in real life :)
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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FAR: Lone Sails scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/609320/far-lone-sailsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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