Barn Finders
Fair · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.9h
- Value
- $1.83/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, GTX 660Ti / R9 270X, 21 GB of storage. Windows only.
Search for valuable items stashed in abandoned barns. Take part in storage auctions, bid high and buy yourself a chance to find exclusive items hidden in the past.
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
April 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. 55 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Supermarket Simulator ($11.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Storage Hunter Simulator ($24.99, scores 42).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 320 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% 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
16 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 21:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a decent game, but way more linear and basic than I expected. It's basically a set of maps you gotta explore (which is the best part) with some amount of money grinding in the pawn shop in between. There isn't really any procedural gameplay here, outside of random item spawns when revisiting locations. There's also not really a lot of upgrades and systems beyond just collect and sell items. For example the pawn...
If you ever loved watching Storage Wars, Barn Finders might be right up your alley. You explore abandoned barns, houses and other locations, looking for anything worth taking home. Some things are complete junk, while others can be cleaned up, repaired and sold for a nice profit. It can get a little repetitive after a while, apart from that the game worked fine for me. Overall, a decent game for when you just want...
Simulator of running a shop, renovating, going to zone to pick up rares, wares and resources, returning to clean, repair, stock the shelves and solicits with customer during open hours. Gets extremely boring after simply a few stages. Extreme low optimization, low fps. Clunky controls and movement. Playing the game with fear of missing out an object, going round in circles searching each spots, worrying on omission...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Barn Finders scores 51/100 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/991170/barn-findersReviews 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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