The Pasture

Worth buying? What 123 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 123 Steam reviews actually say.

Mixed · 56%Mixed · 56%2017

$0.99

US Steam price, checked 6 h ago

The verdict

A short, deliberately bizarre Russian contemporary-art walking sim where you can only move backwards. It's cheap curiosity fodder; skip it if you want real gameplay, polish or stable performance.

Great for

Curious players who like weird art-house experiments, cheap oddities, and easy achievements and trading cards

Main risk

Awkward backwards controls and a very short, incoherent experience that may feel like pretentious trash

What players love

Unique, surreal art-house experience

Mentioned in ~3 in 5 positive reviews

“It's not a game but really an experience”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗

“You'll meet all kinds of madness here: nesting dolls with genitals, breasts on walls, strange things in plastic cups.”
Steam review · translated · 4.2 h played ↗

“I think the author just wanted to make something strange and he succeeded.”
Steam review · translated · 4 h played ↗

Real contemporary art pieces to discover

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“you are finding real art objects that are created by real artists and shown in real galleries”
Steam review · 2.6 h played ↗

“you try to look at the exhibition halls out of the corner of your eye, because it's genuinely interesting there.”
Steam review · translated · 2.1 h played ↗

Very cheap price

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“at such a cheap price i really cant not recommend this game”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗

“The cheap price tag really helps sell the game”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

Trading cards and easy achievements

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“No idea what this game is, but I recommend it because the trading cards are cheap.”
Steam review · translated · 1.4 h played ↗

“The cards paid for the game, with enough left over for ice cream.”
Steam review · translated · 4.2 h played ↗

Funny and memorable atmosphere, music and style

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“It turned out very atmospheric, since the soundtrack is simply magnificent!”
Steam review · translated · 3.5 h played ↗

What players complain about

Awkward backwards-only controls

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“It uses arrow keys. And you have to walk backwards to the camera at all times.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

“it's a walking sim in which you can't even see where are you going, because you have to walk backwards”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“You can only walk backwards. The forward key does not move your character at all.”
Steam review · 4.9 h played ↗

Pretentious, incoherent and grotesque content

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“Have you ever heard the phrase "pretentious garbage" but didn't quite understand what it means? Buy this game and you'll know.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

“Not sure why there are three rotating tits on the wall.”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

Terrible performance and crashes

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“there's no excuse for such a small game to assault your VRAM”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

“If you like to have 10-15 fps while WALKING (!)”
Steam review · 2.6 h played ↗

“my computer ran out of video card memory (at 8GB) just to play it for 30 seconds”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗

Asset flip with low production quality

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“It's just a crap half baked "art gallery" that you're supposed to walk around and find 20 bits of asset flipped art.”
Steam review · 4 h played ↗

“Some russian guy played with some Unity assets and then just”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

Very short with little to do

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“I was able to 100% complete this game in 24 minutes.”
Steam review · 0.4 h played ↗

“20 items to collect to completly do everything in the game, about 20-30minutes of gameplay max.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

No tutorial or settings, confusing goals

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“Please include a tutorial, or at least instructions.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“It is also missing something as basic as sound settings.”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows 7 , 8 or 8.1, 10 – 32/64 bit version

ProcessorIntel/AMD 2.6+ Ghz Dual Core Processor

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVidia: GTX 295, 480, 570, 660 / ATI: HD 4870 X2, 6970, 7850, R7 265

Storage1 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 7 , 8 or 8.1, 10 – 32/64 bit version

ProcessorIntel/AMD 3.0+ Ghz Quad Core Processor

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVidia: GTX 580, GTX 670, GTX 960 / ATI: HD 5970, 7870 LE (XT), 7950, 280, 285

Storage1 GB available space

OSWindows 7 , 8 or 8.1, 10 – 32/64 bit version

ProcessorIntel/AMD 2.6+ Ghz Dual Core Processor

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVidia: GTX 295, 480, 570, 660 / ATI: HD 4870 X2, 6970, 7850, R7 265

Storage1 GB available space

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