A New Beginning - Final Cut
Skip · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 2,179
- Critics
- 72 players 2 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 37% Narrative
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 9.9h
- To 100%
- 10.8h 1.1x the story
- Finish
- 34% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 28
Price and sales
- Sales
- 126 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 December 2014
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 44% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
68% start to 34% 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
The value story
The value story
Across all 126 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 90 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 37 percent. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Truberbrook / Trüberbrook ($29.99, scores 24).
More about A New Beginning - Final Cut
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 480 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 175 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Surprisingly thrilling time travel story about saving the environment I'm saying suprisingly because story started off very dry. Some catastrophe happened in the future, you go back in time a Fay(one of the characters you play as) with her friends, something goes wrong, and you must now work with someone from the past to save the future. Also not a lot of story happens during the early chapters, but eventually, the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Solid game, with a silly but enjoyable plot, a couple of taxing puzzles and generally excellent art. It is however let down largely by the most stilted voice work I've heard in years, if the game wasn't so old i'd have assumed AI did it. Devoid of all emotion. Crazy work for an otherwise excellent experience.
A very messy and buggy game. Puzzles that break. Had a sequence where you needed to re-do a certain puzzle, triggering a cut-scene for a second time before the game allowed you to progress. Subtitles that are missing or don't make sense. Voice acting that doesn't understand the dialogue. I would go for several other daedalic games before this one. It feels lazy, and barely quality checked.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1.5 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.0 compatible with 256 MB RAM (Shared Memory is not recommended), 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
A New Beginning - Final Cut scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/105000/a-new-beginning-final-cutReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.