Yi and the Thousand Moons

Yi and the Thousand Moons

Skip · Narrative · 2017

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$2.99Skip

On its price record

$1.02Fair

Length
0.3h 0.3h to 100%
Value
$9.97/hr
Reviews
82% of 205 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.02 or less.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1420 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

Holding it back
Value$9.97/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 80% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 123 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Yi and the Thousand Moons is a short video game musical written and developed by David Su. Through the course of several original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band, the game weaves a story of the archer Yi's journey to save her village.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Directx 9.0 compatible video card, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

19 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 203 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 41 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Path ($9.99, scores 44) beats it on value, while it beats Proteus ($9.99, scores 32).

More about Yi and the Thousand Moons

Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 182 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 98 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

92% start to 83% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Yi and the Thousand Moons scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/701730/yi-and-the-thousand-moons
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDavid Su
PublisherDavid Su
GenreNarrative
Released2017
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements7