Reaching for Petals
Skip · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.9h 1.1h to 100%
- Value
- $5.54/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 203 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1057 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
Reaching for Petals is a poetic adventure about love, loss, and ambition. You will travel to the peak of the ever-reaching mountain to uncover the true nature of your mysterious and seemingly unguided journey.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 760 or AMD Radeon 7950, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
19 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 151 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Layers of Fear 2 (2019) ($1.99, scores 32) beats it on value, while it beats The Suicide of Rachel Foster ($1.79, scores 26).
More about Reaching for Petals
Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 72 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
31% start to 14% 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
What players say
This game is literally indescribable, or rather, I don't have the words to describe how much it touched me, not only physically but also emotionally. Such a beautiful and captivating narrative literally fills the entire time spent with this game. Frankly, calling this story just a game is beyond words; it's something more, something eternal. I don't want to spoil it, but I won't say much either. The game is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Reaching for Petals Positives: + Good graphics + Beautifully designed nature to explore + Fantastic sounds and music + Notebooks to collect + Achievements + Amazing storytelling + The voiceover is just brilliant (and would make Sir David Attenborough proud) + The atmosphere is so amazing + Calm and relaxing + The deeper meaning + The philosophy + The most beautiful ending ever + Pure art Negatives: - Quite taxing on...
An emotional story. I give it a negative rating, since -like several people- I couldn't get the achievement of the notebooks due to a bug.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Reaching for Petals scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/636170/reaching-for-petalsReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.