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Berry Bury Berry

Berry Bury Berry

Get(Color) Games · released Jan 28, 2026

AdventureCasualIndiePCPlayStation 5Xbox Series XNintendo Switch

A juicy first-person incremental game about growing berries and tossing them down an ominous hole. Earn money and upgrades. Make new friends with sentient berry pals. Grow and control the hole as you unearth why nobody leaves this accursed garden. Bury it all, Berry everything.

89
VGC Score
Stablehigh confidence

anchored at patch: “Alternate Puzzles + Bug Fixes” (6mo ago)

94%
At launch
98%
Steam all-time
n/a
Press
75%
Player sentiment
98%
Recent sentiment

PC 89 · PlayStation 82 · Xbox 67

Screenshots & trailers

Review sentiment over time

Weekly positive-review rate (green) and review volume (bars). Dashed lines mark significant patches; the amber line is the start of the current scoring window. Hover the dots to see what drove a dip or a jump.

How this score was computed

The VGC Score is a weighted blend on a press-comparable 0-100 quality scale. Steam approval rates are first calibrated (95% positive on Steam ≈ 89.5 quality, since Steam approval skews high). Press and tracked creator reviews each count ~2x a player review and share one cap against player evidence (creator buy/skip calls pool into an approval rate, calibrated like Steam approval); all-time sentiment is capped and halved (it's context, not verdict); reviews of the current build carry the most weight when a fresh patch anchors the window; and a 'typical game' prior keeps small samples from pegging the scale. Because press reviews and Metacritic user aggregates describe the launch build, their weight decays as the game ages (3-year half-life after a 1-year grace). That's how a game that launched rough can outgrow its old reception once updates win players over. Reviews under 2h playtime (the refund window), non-Steam activations, and free copies are downweighted.

ComponentPositiveQuality (0-100)Weight (pseudo-reviews)
Press reviews (Metacritic)0
All-time Steam reviews98%941000
Metacritic user ratings0
Post-patch Steam reviews (trust-weighted)98%943000
Calibration prior (typical game)7250

Acclaim gate: the raw blend lands at 93.5, but scores above 88 must be earned in front of a mass audience; this verdict rests on 8,712 player reviews, a largely self-selected fanbase. As more players weigh in, the ceiling rises (full scale unlocks at 100,000 reviews).

Scoring window: since the last significant patch (Feb 28, 2026) · 300 reviews sampled · 5419 total reviews in window · weighted 237.8 up / 2.6 down · computed 2h ago · full methodology →

Press & Creators reviews (1)

Individual verdicts from outlets we track: scored reviews first, most trusted outlets first among them. The small badge is each outlet's trust score: how well its scoring history aligns with players.

  • 70
    trust 70Aug 27, 2026

    While there’s nothing wrong with oddball simplicity and the appeal of just seeing what can happen next, the familiarity of games like this is giving them waning appeal.

    read full review ↗

Patch history

  1. Alternate Puzzles + Bug Fixes
    Feb 28, 2026significant · resets scoring window
  2. Bug Fixes, Controller Improvements, Steamdeck fixes
    Feb 19, 2026significant · resets scoring window
  3. "Slidey" player fix, Bugs/QOL/Accessibility Patch
    Feb 11, 2026significant · resets scoring window
  4. Bug Fixes + QOL Patch & the future of BBB
    Feb 5, 2026significant · resets scoring window