Eastward
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 20.2h
- Value
- $1.24/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTS 450, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Welcome to the charming world of Eastward - population declining! Journey through a society on the brink of collapse. Discover delightful towns, strange creatures and even stranger people! Wield a trusty frying pan and mystic powers on an adventure into the unknown…
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $12.49, set in September 2023. 40 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 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 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Drova - Forsaken Kin ($24.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Dex ($19.99, scores 48).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 1,214 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
76% start to 1% 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
48 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
so friking long game, but good overall, half way through its feels its going way too slow, but the gameplay is fun so its okay. Finding all the treasure chest and having missable good to buy from each store is too annoying, this is my second playthrough and the second time I miss some foods from earlier chapters, I'm somewhat annoyed but If u don't care much about that, the game is good
Cute farming sim & story mode, amazing art style. peak music. Characters are loveable. Super unique! The farming DLC is like Stardew Valley but with Chinese & Japanese influences (and way better fishing mechanics). Easily one of my favorite games! I hope the dev continues making more, they have real talent & vision that AAA has been missing.
I wanted to like this one. Its whole vibe checks a lot of boxes for me and it looks like something I'd love. Here's what I liked: The simplistic combat/gameplay. You hit things with a frying pan and you get some ranged weapons too. You can change characters and use Sam's abilities too. You use both characters to navigate areas, solve puzzles, and defeat enemies. I also liked Sam as a character. The graphics style...
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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Eastward scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/977880/eastwardThe 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 18, price as of Sep 24.
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