The Great Perhaps
Skip · Narrative · 2019
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$9.99Skip
On its price record
$9.18Fair
- Length
- 2.6h 3.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 856 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.18 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
The Great Perhaps is a time travel puzzle game about an astronaut returning to Earth destroyed by natural cataclysms. There, among the ruins he finds an unusual artifact — an old lantern, in the light of which you can see glimpses of another time and travel to the past.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia Geforce GTX 650 Ti, AMD Radeon HD 7790, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
74 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Everybody's Gone to the Rapture ($19.99, scores 16).
More about The Great Perhaps
54 from critics against 80 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 405 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 144 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 38% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
I'm going to give this a recommended because I did enjoy it overall. The game's tone and narrative are really good, coupled with some emotional voice acting and an atmospheric soundtrack. Unfortunately, there is one very important thing that anyone looking to play this needs to be aware of: It ends on a cliffhanger. A big one. Mechanically, The Great Perhaps offers some really neat ideas by having the ability to see...
1 more review
The Great Perhaps, developed by Caligari Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment, offers players an emotionally charged narrative-driven adventure that explores themes of loss, memory, and the fragility of time. At its core, the game tells the story of an astronaut returning to a post-apocalyptic Earth, only to find a world devastated by natural disasters. This bleak setting sets the stage for a reflective...
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Cite this score
The Great Perhaps scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1016930/the-great-perhapsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.