ANIMAL WELL
Fair · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$24.99Fair
On its price record
$9.26BANGER
- Length
- 7h
- Value
- $3.57/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Integrated, 31 MB of storage. Windows only.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $16.74. It has been discounted 24 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. No sale on record has reached $9.26, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Leap Year ($3.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats La-Mulana ($14.99, scores 58).
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 399 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,335 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 7 hours. Doing everything runs 18, 2.5 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
93% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
137 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 19:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very fun game that manages to make the metroidvania genre feel "new" even for seasoned metroidvania-heads like me. The game keeps on giving, I highly recommend it !
Billy Basso did an amazing job with this passion project! So many things to appreciate about how this game was developed and published!
I don't consider this game bad, not at all. I am sure there are people who can have a lot of fun with it, and in the beginning I did too. However, especially towards the end I found it significantly too tidious and I found myself only playing for the completion, not the fun. The big issues with Animal Well, for me, are that it doesn't unlock enough shortcuts after solving a puzzle or an area. It doesn't unlock *no*...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
ANIMAL WELL scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/813230/animal-wellReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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