My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life
Skip · Short indie · 2019
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$1.99Skip
On its price record
$1.34Fair
- Length
- 0.4h 1.7h to 100%
- Value
- $4.98/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 912 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.34 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 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
This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions have to be made. Or meaningful, to such an extent, that there is nothing left once they are made.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 47 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 21 percent on value. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Stanley Parable ($14.99, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats The Novelist ($4.99, scores 38).
More about My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life
This site sampled 420 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 347 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 70 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 0.4 hours; clearing it takes 2, which is 4.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
42% start to 18% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 01:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
f you like novel games with off-putting stories and good music, this is definitely the game for you. I love games where you go back to follow different choice paths and this game really scratches that itch. The story only really begins to make some sort of sense after going down at least half of the story paths, so I advise taking the time to be patient with the text and really dive deep to get the whole sense of...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
# --- MY THOUGHTS: My one critical piece of advice is to only get this game if it's on sale as it's not worth the full standard price. However, I do think this experience (as it's not much of a game to begin with, even though it could technically be counted as a visual novel) is unique and pretty interesting in its own way. At some points of the story it felt as though I were living through a fever dream. Give it a...
"My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life" is less a game and more of a short interactive story with minimalist visuals and a melancholic vibe. The themes are loneliness, routine, overthinking and all of the usual depressing stuff. The soundtrack is easily the best part, it honestly feels like more effort went into the music than the writing. To understand everything you have to replay segments and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
My name is You and it's the only unusual thing in my life scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1118840/my-name-is-you-and-it-s-the-only-unusual-thing-in-my-lifeReviews 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.