AntVentor

AntVentor

Fair · Narrative · 2018

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.3h 2.7h to 100%
Value
$3.84/hr
Reviews
83% of 527 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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$3.84/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 81% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 275 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

AntVentor is a point & click adventure game. You find yourself in a photorealistic macroworld where you immediately manage to ruin the life of the main character, ant, and foil all his plans for making his dream come true. Can you help get everything back in order?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series, Geforce 9400 Series with at least 512 MB VRAM, 1.8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 51 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Botanicula ($14.99, scores 68) and Carto ($19.99, scores 72) both outscore it.

More about AntVentor

Of the 275 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 209 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 45 percent of everything written about it.

1.3 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.

The drop-off

64% start to 12% 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

Players

Players online
2 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 04:55 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

The puzzles are fun and challenging without being overly complicated, and the game keeps a light, humorous tone throughout the story. Its short length works well because the gameplay stays fresh and never drags on. If you enjoy relaxing adventure games with creative visuals, smart puzzles, and charm, AntVentor is definitely worth playing.
Rambo1Recommendedafter 2.0hMay 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
AntVentor, developed and published by LoopyMood, is a charming and visually inventive point-and-click adventure that reimagines the classic genre through the eyes of one of nature's smallest and most industrious creatures. Set in a richly detailed macro-world where the mundane becomes monumental, the game tells the story of Florantine, a clever but impatient ant with big dreams and a knack for invention. When one of...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 11hOct 2025Read on Steam
Great graphics, but that's about it. The puzzles start off logical, then become increasingly unintuitive and far-fetched. Some required items blend into the environment, making them frustrating to find. There is a hint system, but the cooldown gets longer the more you use it. The story is almost non-existent, and the game is very short. Overall, nice visuals, but disappointing gameplay.
ClementinaNot recommendedafter 3.5hMar 2026Read 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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AntVentor scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/739190/antventor
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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 28, 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

DeveloperLoopyMood
PublisherLoopyMood
GenreNarrative
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements13