Lydia
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1h 1h to 100%
- Value
- $4.99/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 614 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.93 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
Award winning emotional visual novel about a little girl in a world of adults. How can you find a monster you can’t see?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000 or better, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
94 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Cat Lady ($8.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Children of Silentown ($19.99, scores 52).
More about Lydia
78 from critics against 89 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 202 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 508 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 89 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
What players say
Lydia is not so much a game but a walking simulator. It's an emotional roller coaster with themes of: substance abuse, neglect, victim-hood, and many more but I don't want to spoil. The creators call it an emotional visual novel which fits cause you are essentially locked an a linear path of characters talking, walking and more characters talking. The characters speak gibberish sound effects (Banjo Kazooie style)...
2 more reviews
The developers definitely understand the subject matter. Incredibly, gut-twistingly portrayed, and exactly as long as it needed to be. Cathartic, too - thank you for that choice at the end.
A neat short psychological horror point&click experience, that effectively reflects parts of reality. The combination of the exaggerated cartoonish character designs and behaviours, combined with the sinister atmospheric backround art, provides the narrative with an interesting, sarcastic but plausible feel (some of the conversations indeed frustrated me due to their relatable presentation). The stylistic choices...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Lydia scores 60/100 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/629000/lydiaReviews 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.