Lakeview Valley
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 762 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
Murder rpg set in the small town of Lakeview Valley. Become the most popular home-owner or succumb to your dark desires. The choice is yours.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 8-compatible graphics card with at least 32MB of video memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 35 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 9 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 pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vaporum ($3.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats GreedFall: The Dying World ($49.99, scores 3).
More about Lakeview Valley
This site sampled 398 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 119 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
40% start to 1% 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
I love LVC series, and plotwise this part is good as well, but my god it's unpolished as hell. Bugs is this game procreate as if this is dead rat left on a sun. Achievements and events will break, items may dissapear and you may even hardlock yourself (thank god there's cheats in this game or I would have to start everything from clean save)
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I honestly wish I listened to the other negative reviews before buying this, because everything they say is spot on. I'm writing this just to reinforce the points they've already articulated better than I can. This game has an intriguing premise and a pretty cool art style, but beyond the initial shenanigans and discovering a few interesting bits, there's really not much to it. It feels shallow and underbaked, like...
A charming little story, with wholesome townsfolk and a fully customisable main character. Hundreds of ways you could play and move through the story, and pretty highly addicting. Highly highly highly recommend. (!) I am being semi-sarcastic, this game is gritty and gory with a really twisted ending and lots of things to do!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Lakeview Valley scores 49/100 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/783840/lakeview-valleyReviews 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.