The Big Journey
Fair · Narrative · 2018
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.9h 8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 353 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 4 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
About the game
A cat who's hungry for good food and excitement.
Minimum specs
Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
80 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Creaks ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Spirit of the North 2 ($29.99, scores 54).
More about The Big Journey
Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 138 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
1.9 hours to finish it, 8 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
93% start to 6% rarestNo 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
What players say
Levels are repetitive and same-y. Even though there are 30 or so levels, almost all of them are nearly the same. When aiming for 3 stars in every level, later levels become very frustrating and trial & error. You will fall or otherwise be launched into a new section, not be able to react in time and you'll miss a dupling with no way of going back, forcing you to replay the whole level again. This is all made worse...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'm finishing this game because I'm stubborn, but its not enjoyable. Half the time the buttons don't work, I keep getting stuck on random moving things, or get flung into the air suddenly. The game also randomly decides to reset the turn I've set for the world which messes with my progress. It is extremely frustrating and I have to force myself to keep playing this game and I would have already dropped it if it...
I'm ultimately going to recommend this game, but it is a tepid recommendation due to the increasingly frustrating flaws (almost exclusively due to the absolutely atrocious responsiveness of the keyboard and mouse controls, which result in you fighting not the puzzles/platforming challenges but rather the ability of the game to recognize that you have tilted the screen and/or hit the jump button). Positives: Gameplay...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Big Journey scores 58/100 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/742480/the-big-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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.