The Almost Gone
Skip · Narrative · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Direct3D 11 video card, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Experience the intricate dioramas and connections of your life, and the ripples we all make, in this award-winning narrative puzzle game about death, loss, and mental health.
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
May 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. 36 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. On the same math Children of Silentown ($19.99, scores 52) and In Other Waters ($14.99, scores 52) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 498 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 112 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.5 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
94% start to 44% 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
Honestly can't make up my mind about this game. I think it needed to be a bit longer and meatier. The art style is beautiful and it does a great job of creating atmosphere and tension, but it felt like the story and gameplay were vying for attention with neither being sufficiently satisfying, or super well integrated with each other. I think the puzzle aspect should have been leaned into more; it was frequently hard...
A decent compact point and click puzzler to dive into for a couple of hours. It has unique visuals, great atmospheric soundtrack, and an intriguing story that doesn't take the center stage (gameplay does), which is both a pro and a con of the game, depending what you want from it. Graphics are simplistic and puzzles are straight forward which makes it hard to recommend it for desk PC sessions. Playing if on mobile...
2 of the achievements were meaningless, lost in limbo(spend more than 5 hours in the game) & deja vu(finished the game a second time). Relaunch the game if you facing mouse clicking interaction issue.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Almost Gone scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1115780/the-almost-goneReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.
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