Penko Park
Worth it · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.51.
- Length
- 2.5h 6.9h to 100%
- Value
- $5.60/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 674 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.51 or less.
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
About the game
Snap pictures of spooky-cute creatures & explore an abandoned wildlife park.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 42 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $8.51 BANGER line 35 times.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dordogne ($4.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Alba: A Wildlife Adventure ($16.99, scores 69).
More about Penko Park
None of the 307 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 105 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 7, 2.8 times as long.
The drop-off
94% start to 16% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 05:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is the perfect spritiual successor to the original Pokemon Snap. I always like how that game was basically a photography game with a bit of a puzzle element to it - where progressing meant being curious and finding new ways to interact with the environment. And there's not a lot of photography games that truly lean into the exploration/puzzle aspect and I'm delighted that this game exists! The game progresses...
2 more reviews
Blasted through this since I was really enjoying myself. Its pretty much Pokemon Snap but it improves the gameplay loop and QOL here and there. The style is also pretty nice too, simple but unique.
I can definitely recommend this if you're looking for something chill and relaxing, or if you're just looking for anything to recapture some of the spirit of the original Pokemon Snap. I wasn't expecting the on-rails structure going into this (my bad), but it worked really well and combined with the gradual increase in gadgets, replaying is really nice. Minor puzzles if you're going for everything, but it's just a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Penko Park scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/852090/penko-parkReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.