Yaga
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$24.99Skip
On its price record
$15.32Fair
- Length
- 8.9h 19h to 100%
- Value
- $2.81/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 662 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.32 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
Play as Ivan, a one-handed blacksmith with incredibly bad luck, who must take on the impossible tasks given to him by the tzar. All the while the mysterious witch, Baba Yaga, watches over Ivan's fate.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 GTX, GT640, GT730, Radeon HD 5850, HD Graphics 530, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 61 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 26 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Overlord™: Raising Hell ($9.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing: Final Cut ($44.99, scores 37).
More about Yaga
Steam's global achievement data puts about 13 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to June 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
8.9 hours to finish it, 19 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
90% start to 13% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 18, 16:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I have enjoyed my time with this game, although there were a few bumps that could be improved on, there is no way to save your recipies, and some of the talismans remained unused. However, with the rest of the game, it was certainly an enjoyable experience. Especially with the intricate soundtrack and sound effects that make the game more lively. Overall, if you have some time to spare, please give this game a shot!
2 more reviews
Wonderful flavor! Using slavic folklore and european fairy tales to tell a story in the way one would experience one of such tales as told by a book or a parental figure! The artstyle actually matches that vibe, with it being kind of a dark gritty whimsical and looking like a fairy tale book's artstyle. It is creative enough and gives plenty to do as to experience such themes! As for the negatives, I'm afraid it is...
Neither Here nor There: Yaga In recent years, Slavic mythology and tradition has become more of a presence on the world of video games, thanks in no small part to the Witcher series. Yaga takes a slightly different approach, trading some of the grimdark brooding for a more fairy-tale-like feel. In Yaga, you play as Ivan, a blacksmith that narrowly escapes an encounter with the witch Likho, saving his skin but losing...
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Cite this score
Yaga scores 44/100 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/888530/yagaReviews 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.