Half Past Fate

Half Past Fate

Fair · RPG · 2020

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.9h 5.5h to 100%
Value
$4.08/hr
Reviews
93% of 302 positive
It needs 38% off ($12.41) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.41 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.99 (70% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 7 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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$4.08/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 210 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Love is in the air, but work, life, and spicy Ramen keep getting in the way! From 8 hours to 8 years, this time-jumping saga will change the way you feel about fate forever.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 32 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Left on Read (free, scores 55).

More about Half Past Fate

Critics scored it 78. Players sit 15 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

1 of the 210 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.

The drop-off

78% start to 8% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

I bought it bc the graphics were really beautiful & I was going through a phase where I wanted to try a game like this. The graphics didn't disappoint but the characters... I found ALL of them unbearable, not exceptions. Every single character and couple was horribly cliché & thats why I stopped enjoying the game about halfway through, even though I still completed it with some extra stuff out of inertia. But...
unsaintedNot recommendedafter 7.5hJul 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
I like the art, the soundtrack and the concept, but you get to know the characters so little and jump between each stories pretty fast. The pacing just ruined it for me.
DieThenDieAgainNot recommendedafter 2.3hDec 2024Read on Steam
A cute and wholesome game, but the characters and story lack depth. There is no development or tension in the game that leaves you bored. Only recommend buying if on sale.
CozyKaijuPajamasNot recommendedafter 4.7hDec 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Half Past Fate scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1048740/half-past-fate
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Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+15
Critics78
Players93
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 302 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSerenity Forge
PublisherWay Down Deep
GenreRPG
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements42