Ary and the Secret of Seasons
Skip · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $7.99.
- Length
- 9h 18h to 100%
- Value
- $0.89/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 221 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Take control of the seasons and use them to solve puzzles, defeat enemies, and discover the beautiful world of Valdi in this award-winning indie adventure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD FX-6350 Radeon RX 460, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 65 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $7.99 at 80 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 88 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Hob ($19.99, scores 62) and Dungeons of Hinterberg ($22.99, scores 76) both outscore it.
More about Ary and the Secret of Seasons
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 9 hours. Doing everything runs 18, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
64% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game has flashes of interesting stuff but they're buried so far beneath the buggy, messy and unfinished feeling rest of the game that it just makes me sad. I see the vision here, it could have been a great exploration game, were it not for the wonky platforming controls, buggy combat that makes you take damage from nothing (and dares to have an achievement for finishing the game without dying on top of that)...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Good concept, but very buggy. I liked most of the game, though some of the segments are frustrating Good: -Fun game mechanics -Amazing world building -Great graphics Bad: -parkour and puzzles in the temples get more frustrating as you progress, it often feels like I am using some speedrun mechanics skip mechanics to get to other areas -extremely buggy ->lots of wall/floor glitches ->whenever you destroy a crystal...
The game is still a bit rough around the edges. I encountered most of the bugs the developer mentioned in the launch day update, along with a few additional ones of my own. None of these completely broke the game, except for one issue: the autosave system can get stuck, meaning it doesn't actually save. This caused me to lose all progress through an entire dungeon. That said, it didn't stop me from finishing the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Ary and the Secret of Seasons scores 15/100 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/935570/ary-and-the-secret-of-seasonsReviews 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 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.