Our Life: Beginnings & Always
BANGER · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
A BANGER, and it costs nothing.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 99% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card. Runs on Windows, Linux.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is the best reviewed of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Lake ($6.99, scores 67) and Dragon Age™: The Veilguard ($20.99, scores 22) both come in lower.
Steam's global achievement data puts 34 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8.
8.7 hours to finish it, 27 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.1 times the campaign.
It is still busy. 237 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
89% start to 34% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
237 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Our Life: Beginnings & Always scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1129190/our-life-beginnings-alwaysThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18.
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