A New Beginning - Final Cut
Skip · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 9.9h
- Value
- $1.01/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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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.
A New Beginning is a cinematic adventure-thriller done graphic novel-style.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was December 2014. Its cuts run 90 percent off as a rule. There have been 124 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 35 percent on value. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Night of the Rabbit ($19.99, scores 49) beats it on value, while it beats Truberbrook / Trüberbrook ($29.99, scores 23).
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 475 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to 33% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Decided to drink and watch Nonpoint youtube videos over playing this. Wasn't worth my time.
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.
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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A New Beginning - Final Cut scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/105000/a-new-beginning-final-cutThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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