planetarian HD
BANGER · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $3.22/hr
- Reviews
- 99% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256MB Video Memory (with Pixel Shader 2.0), 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
planetarian HD is an engaging and emotional visual novel from legendary game studio, Key. A sub-brand of VISUAL ARTS, Key are also famed for creating Kanon, AIR, CLANNAD, Little Busters!, Rewrite, Angel Beats!, and Summer Pockets.
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
August 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 60 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Caravan SandWitch ($24.99, scores 48) and CaseCracker ($9.99, scores 70).
The math says it holds its tier up to $12.54, and you are being asked for $9.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 50 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 327 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 99 percent of the 844 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
89% start to 50% 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
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 06:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This short story is not a complex, sophisticated masterpiece. Indeed, it is quite predictable, uses "cheap" tricks to make you emotional, and you know pretty much everything about the characters after the first 30 minutes (although, with some notable exceptions). However, it's clear to me that none of this is the aim of this visual novel. Instead, It is laser focused on dialogue and character interactions, and I...
this game felt like such a nothing burger. so much buildup for one somewhat nice moment, and then absolutely nothing interesting happening in between.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
planetarian HD scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/623080/planetarian-hdReviews 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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