Downwell: The Cheapest Game on This List
What this page helps you decide: whether a two-minute run loop is what you want, because that is what this price buys.
Downwell is the cheapest title tracked on this site at $2.99, and it sits at 96.6% positive — higher than the most expensive game on this list, which costs twenty times as much. That single comparison is the reason this entry exists on the price-versus-rating page, and it holds up on a sample of 8,614 reviews, which is small for this list but far from negligible. The game itself is deliberately tiny: you fall down a well, you shoot downward to slow yourself, runs last minutes. It ships 9 interface languages and is Windows only. What you are buying at this price is a loop, not a world — and the score says the buyers knew that and liked it.
The caveat that belongs with the headline
This title anchors the argument that price does not predict score, and the argument is real. But its review sample is the smallest of the twenty tracked here, and percentages on smaller samples move more easily. The comparison against the sixty-dollar entry is fair — both are well above 95% — and it is not a claim that one is twenty times better.
What the store page publishes, and what it does not
Published: developer, Steam release date, price, language list, platform list, review totals. Not published: run length, upgrade count, or level structure. This page states none of them.
Step-by-Step
- Expect very short runs. This is a loop you dip into, not a world you live in.
- Windows only.
- 9 interface languages, though the game carries almost no text to translate.
- At $2.99 this is the lowest-cost entry point onto this entire list.
Tips & Notes
- Cheapest title tracked here at $2.99, and it outscores the most expensive one.
- 8,614 reviews is the smallest sample on this list — a real caveat on the percentage.
FAQ
How much does Downwell cost?
$2.99 on Steam, checked 2026-08-28 — the cheapest of the twenty titles tracked here.
Is it better than the expensive games on this list?
It scores higher than the most expensive one (96.6% against 95.3%), on a much smaller review sample. Both are well above 95%, so the honest reading is that price and score are unrelated here — not that one is better.
What platforms?
The Steam page lists Windows only.
Sources
- Official Downwell on Steam (official store page) — Source for the developer, Steam release date, price, review counts, review percentage, language list and platform list quoted on this page. Read 2026-08-28.
- Community "Downwell - The Basics [1]" by Hutts — Guide video referenced for Downwell; search "Downwell guide" returned about 119,080 results. Read 2026-08-28.