Later Alligator
Fair · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$17.99Fair
On its price record
$4.78BANGER
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $6.92/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 750M or equivalent, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Pat the alligator, a (mostly) harmless and (probably) innocent reptile is at the center of a conspiracy that could bring down the biggest, scariest family in Alligator New York City: his own! Explore the city, meet the Family, and try to save Pat before the clock runs out.
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
It has never been cheaper than $2.69. That was November 2024. 40 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 9 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $4.78, a level the record has reached 13 times.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 398 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 261 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.6 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
At 2.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
88% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 2.6-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 20:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I dont remember what drew me to this originaly but Im glad I bought it! Characters and plots are cute, fun, unexpected and delightful to play over to get everything done right.
A short and quick point-and-click adventure that has charm in every frame and line of dialogue! A cozy mystery and a full cast of hilarious characters; the devs pull their whole heart into this game! There is only one thing I wish had been included in the game, and that is a skip button to some of the longer cutscenes, particularly the ending cutscene- the game will require multiple playthroughs to uncover all its...
don't play it with the default steam deck controls like I did. use keyboard and mouse as intended. however because the mini-games aren't that fun to play and built on a punchline, I don't want to replay them after failing since that would mean hearing the same joke again. It encourages completion but I don't see myself having fun doing that. in terms of writing though the game is a very funny parody of italian mafia...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Later Alligator scores 60/100 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/966320/later-alligatorReviews 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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