MEANDERS

MEANDERS

Worth it · Action · 2018

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99.

Length
1.3h 6h to 100%
Value
$2.30/hr
Reviews
91% of 406 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2293 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

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Replayability~6h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 1.3h main story
Engagement19% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.30/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 100 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

MEANDERS is a sparkling adventure through a series of funny and relaxing challenges in a colourful setting.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 / AMD Radeon HD 4670 / Intel HD Graphics 4000, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 23 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 328 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Human Fall Flat ($19.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Kiki ($0.99, scores 0).

More about MEANDERS

Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 149 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 1.3 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 4.6 times as long.

The drop-off

89% start to 19% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

This game, in its current state, just simply doesn't work. I'm sure the game itself is fun if you could actually play it, however, once the game is open for 2 minutes it crashes and there is nothing you can do about it. I have changed every single setting in the settings, changed install locations between my hard drive and ssd, and even attempted to look into the files of the game to find anything, and there are no...
LHunterrNot recommendedafter 1.5hMar 2023Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Unfortunately, it keeps crashing after a few minutes in, so it is unplayable for me
DalfiNot recommendedafter 4.0hJan 2022Read on Steam
Meanders is a somewhat decent indie game. You platform around trying to shoot balls through hoops or balloons or whatever else the level decides, and then when you're done you move onto the next. Nothing special. At least on the surface, because after you complete the game, you get to add a rule. I'm not talking about stuff like an extra jump. I'm talking about porting the basic mechanics from a whole other game...
SammieRecommendedafter 4.6hJan 2022Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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MEANDERS scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/734920/meanders
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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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperATOMIC BREATH
PublisherATOMIC BREATH
GenreAction
Released2018
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements48