Love, Sam
Worth it · Narrative · 2019
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 613 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.59 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 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
Alone in your room, you see a diary sitting on your desk. It wants to tell you a story: a story about a high school crush. A story about small town romance. A story about how everyone is against you and nobody will ever love you again.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 10 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Gray Dawn ($19.99, scores 46).
More about Love, Sam
This site sampled 325 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 197 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 03:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A short, atmospheric story which is thought provoking and disturbing. There is some roughness around the edges but nothing that diminished the dread or otherwise diminished the cloying sadness of each revelation.
2 more reviews
WHAT A MASTERPIECE. Cannot emphasise enough on how utterly mindblowing this game turned out to be. Had me thinking, had me scared and had me hooked. 11/10. Wow.
love sam is really a great game, it's a game that should be played at least once. the jumpscares got me more then i want to admit
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Love, Sam scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1073820/love-samReviews 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.