Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
Worth it · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.28.
- Length
- 1.6h 3.2h to 100%
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 613 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.28 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3 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
On the corner of July Avenue and Yam Street, all is not what it seems. What role will you play in a city's fate?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce 800 series / Radeon Pro 560, 2GB, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 39 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $5.28. The record reaches that level 22 times.
Value puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Paradise Killer ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats The Norwood Suite ($9.99, scores 58).
More about Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1
This site sampled 306 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.6 hours; clearing it takes 3, which is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
82% start to 12% 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
What players say
Weird, wonderful, surreal... and full of pizza! It won't take you long to finish, but it's a great ride! Plus the soundtrack is fire.
2 more reviews
It's definitely an improvement over Cosmo D's previous games, and you can start to see the trajectory of where he's going. My main complaint with the older ones were that there isn't very much to the "game" component - I'm fine with walking simulators, but having so much of the (overly simplistic) story tied up in eavesdropping seems like a low-effort way of delivering narrative info. The music is definitely the...
Perfect. Relaxing, mysterious, reminding me of existentialism, dreams and post-modern jazz in a way more mature form than off-peak. I love Cosmo D.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1129920/tales-from-off-peak-city-vol-1Reviews 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.