Venineth
Skip · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$10.44Fair
- Length
- 9.2h 27.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 268 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.44 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $6.99 (65% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Venineth is a single-player game focusing on unraveling the mysteries of ancient alien technology, somewhere in the universe via exploration, platforming, and puzzle-solving, in a dangerous, distant worlds.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 760 (or AMD equivalent), 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
29 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 22 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Swapper ($2.24, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats The Ball ($9.99, scores 35).
More about Venineth
1 of the 253 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 9.2 hours; clearing it takes 28, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
At 9.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
96% start to 2% 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
What players say
help im being held prisoner in a chinese room like, the language they won't stop slipping messages under the door i have no idea what im doing or why also im an orb and the room is a metaphor thats kind of important
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Best marble Game there is. I love the creative worlds, it´s challenging but not unfair.
I was really torn on this review, but I can't in good faith recommend Venineth. There's a gem in the rough here. The vibes are impeccable, the soundscape is dreamlike, it's an audiovisual feast. But the gameplay has a lot of issues. For the first couple levels it's absolutely fine. You get to go fast and feel free. There's almost a zen-like quality to rolling through these alien landscapes. But the further you get...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Venineth scores 43/100 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/976500/veninethReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.