Forager
Worth it · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 15.5h
- Value
- $1.29/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. 49 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Necesse ($9.74, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Feel The Snow ($12.99, scores 56).
Critics scored it 78. Players sit 11 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 1,508 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 15.5 hours; clearing it takes 43, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
81% start to 8% 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
Players
235 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Game long abandoned, had so much to do and go with, but so many plans unfinished. Could've been great
Abandon Ware. Severe issues with lag end game even on high end machines. I found I could reduce lag by emptying my inventory but the fuller my inventory was the more lag I experienced. Also lots of in menu advertising about upcoming updates that never came to pass, least the dev could do is remove all that. Luckily got this game on extreme discount but still wouldn't recommend it, 100% the achievements out of spite.
6/10 Game is super fun and makes you addicted to constant upgrades, progression and etc but it gets really bad and boring at the end of the game and when it comes to achievements, like having 100 nuclear structures, 1kkk coins, 1kk coins from banks, just grind that takes times, otherwise i wish it would keep being updated
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Forager scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/751780/foragerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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