Journey
Worth it · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.7475% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $7.50/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 38,870
- Genre rank
- Top 8% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.74 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2h
- To 100%
- 5.8h 2.9x the story
- Finish
- 46% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 14
Price and sales
- Sales
- 56 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $2.24 April 2024
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 16 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
46% start to 46% 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
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $5.88 BANGER line 23 times.
Its score puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Meadow - A Shelter Game ($6.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Eastshade ($24.99, scores 57).
More about Journey
Steam's global achievement data puts 46 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 13,279 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 38 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 2.9 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 16 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game was kind of crazy. Being matched up with 1 other person part way through the story sometimes. Sometimes you're solo. I had 1 or 2 amazing runs where another person and I basically understood each other completely. Watching each other's backs, learning our patterns, all without a username or spoken language. This game is a fine thing
2 more reviews
Playing Journey is like getting therapy, except it actually works. 10/10 will play again.
We just spent half the game playing together. I don't know you, where you live, what language you speak. Yet, we found collectibles for each other, warned each other of danger, were worried about each other when harm came their way, and acted as one. And we did all of that with the single press of a button to communicate. Honestly, this game is the prime example of video games as art but getting to experience it...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Explore the ancient, mysterious world of Journey as you soar above ruins and glide across sands to discover its secrets.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTS 450 | AMD Radeon HD 5750, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Journey scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/638230/journeyReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.