Before I Forget

Before I Forget

Skip · Narrative · 2020

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a worth-it price before.

Today

$7.99Skip

On its price record

$2.01Worth it

Length
0.8h 1.1h to 100%
Value
$9.99/hr
Reviews
88% of 215 positive
It needs 75% off ($2.01) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.01 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Engagement76% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$9.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 189 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A woman alone in a house. A mystery and a love story. Explore the present to uncover the past, in a short story of love and loss and a life well-lived. A narrative exploration game that examines a world where memories are constantly fading and jumbled.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD4000 or equivalent, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was March 2024. 28 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Call of the Sea ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Nephise Begins ($0.99, scores 11).

More about Before I Forget

Steam's global achievement data puts 76 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 86 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

76% start to 76% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

"Before I Forget" is a story-rich, first-person exploration game from 3-Fold Game, it is moving, and atmospheric, it examines the emotional impact of dementia. You play as Sunita - a woman living with early onset dementia. As you wander from room to room, you discover mysterious objects, each holding a fleeting, fragmented memory. You examine faded postcards, scribbled notes, photographs, and more to uncover...
Nox-LuanRecommendedafter 1.8hMar 2025Read on Steam
1 more review
Fantastic game. Loved the story, the game mechanics, the audio, and all the music. Wonderful way to bring a heart touching story to people. Would recommned. 10/10.
LiteFrozenRecommendedafter 1.2hFeb 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Before I Forget scores 49/100 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/1126600/before-i-forget
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Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

Developer3-Fold Games
Publisher3-Fold Games
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10