ARIDA: Backland's Awakening
Worth it · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.39.
- Length
- 2.3h 5.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 792 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening. A story of survival and adventure in the brazilian backlands. Face the drought to explore the more arid regions, gather resources and discover clues about the fate of the young Cícera.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GeForce GTX750 TI, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 56 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dordogne ($4.49, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Carto ($19.99, scores 72).
More about ARIDA: Backland's Awakening
Steam's global achievement data puts about 14 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 345 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 233 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
2.3 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
51% start to 14% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening is a distinctive survival adventure that offers far more than the usual struggle against nature. Developed and published by Aoca Game Lab, the game invites players into the drought-stricken backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil, presenting a historical setting that is rarely explored in modern gaming. Instead of relying on fantasy, science fiction, or post-apocalyptic themes, it draws...
2 more reviews
Cute little game! I wish there had been more to it but I guess I'll have to wait for the sequel! The nordeste is ruthless and this game is just a tiny experience of it! A game that let you learn more about the world. I got to see a few pictures and videos of Arida 2 and the devs went from so far! They deserve applause and cheers! As well as encouragement to finish the story of Cicera.
You can see the dev's care and intention with the game when playing it. Awesome short game (2.5h)! This is such an art piece that warmed my Brazilian heart.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ARIDA: Backland's Awakening 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/907760/arida-backland-s-awakeningReviews 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.