Return of the Obra Dinn
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.75.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.44/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 35,753
- Critics
- 89 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.75 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.2h
- To 100%
- 10.5h 1.3x the story
- Finish
- 46% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 16
Price and sales
- Sales
- 36 on record
- Typical cut
- 33% off
- Steam low
- $9.99 October 2020
- Sale every
- 69d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 213 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
62% 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
36 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 33 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $12.75 BANGER line 10 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 4 percent. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Detective Di: The Silk Rose Murders ($10.99, scores 60) and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Return of the Obra Dinn
The press gave it 89; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
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. 18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 983 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 964 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
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
I want to hang this game in the louvre, cut out the pages of all of the books in the British library and replace it with the story of Obra Dinn, and find a way to blot the memory of this game from my mind so I can play it again for the first time.
2 more reviews
I give a hats off to the developer for he - in addition to creating a great game/story - took the time to localize to the Arabic language. Very few individual developers spend the time and effort to do so. I can imagine it was not that straight forward
A brilliant game. I created my own strategy to solve some of the late-stage crewmates I call "Two Maybes and a Chinese Guy." Once I had gotten the info of two crewmates to a point I felt somewhat confident in, I'd find a Chinese sailor I'd seen die and cycle through their names until the three new fates were solved, or nothing happened. If nothing, change the cause of death or find my second-guess identity, then...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Discrete GPU, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Return of the Obra Dinn scores 76/100 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/653530/return-of-the-obra-dinnReviews 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.