Evan's Remains
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $2.33/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX10-compliant card with minimum 512 MB RAM, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Years after a boy genius named Evan disappears, a bizarre letter arrives. Evan wants a girl named Dysis to come find him. As Dysis, you’ll need to solve an intricate series of puzzles to unravel the entire mystery—and bring Evan home.
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
The value story
February 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.39. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 48 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dreaming Sarah ($5.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Munin ($4.99, scores 61).
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 13 points higher at 88 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 50 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 415 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026.
At 3 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
93% start to 50% 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
So uh I may be biased because this game is really special to me for personal reasons, and because it feels nice to play a game I've played years ago again - that being said I do really love it. It won't be everyone's cup of tea- and I know for a fact not everyone will enjoy how things play out story-wise, but I personally have no notes. I also enjoyed the puzzles, I definitely struggled more when I was younger so it...
So I want to say right off the bat, I did enjoy this game! The gameplay was absolutely amazing and incredibly enjoyable and unique. The pixel art was stunning and richly detailed, with very fluid animations! And for these two things alone I would definitely recommend the game! I do have some mixed feelings with the plot, though, specifically the ending. Most of the story was well-written and the mystery was very...
First two thirds of the game promise a lot of great things only to piss you off with the finale. While there is some interesting conversation that can come from playing this game, I hated the way the game wrapped up. It felt like the writers wrote themselves into a corner and instead of trying to come up with a beautiful, meaningful ending, they put a plot twist that served no purpose other than to resolve the...
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Cite this score
Evan's Remains scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1110050/evan-s-remainsReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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