Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 25.6h
- Value
- $1.17/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 87% over the last 30 days against 95% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 10-compatible graphics card with at least 1GB of video memory, 7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferrymaster to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and release them into the afterlife. The Spiritfarer Farewell Edition includes the heartwarming base game and three major content updates.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in March 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 51 in the 6 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Jalopy ($14.99, scores 42) and Carto ($19.99, scores 72).
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 11 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Players rate it 95 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 87 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 1 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,297 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
6 years after release it still had 702 people in it at once.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
66% start to 6% 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
702 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The first play through, I played for the beautifully written story line that brought me to tears. The second, third and fourth time, I played for the incredibly addictive mechanics and serene sense of peace that this game brings me. I cannot explain how much of this game just works. From the demo, I was skeptical but after hearing a friend's raving review, I bit the bullet and I'm so thankful I did.
i do feel the need to frontload my one hangup, both because it's potentially very serious but also somehow didn't matter at all. i think there may be a slight incongruity between the optimization-brain the gameplay loop inevitably encourages, and the fact that Mundane Time Spent With Each Spirit is the game's main emotional currency, more so than even any of its written moments. the opening hours, with the least...
Would not recommend: 1. The gameplay is very, very repetitive. In the trailers you see interesting movement options and cool scenes, but in reality you'll be playing the same uninteresting minigames to water crops, feed the crew, cut wood logs, etc., for the entire game. There is very little QoL here (animations are drawn out and you can expect to repeat tasks 10x a day, 2000x over the course of the game.) The same...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/972660/spiritfarer-farewell-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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