A Gay's Life

A Gay's Life

Worth it · RPG · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99.

Length
0.7h
Value
$4.27/hr
Reviews
94% of 397 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 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

Raising the score
Reviews94% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 91% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$4.27/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 219 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

In the game, players will be the first perspective to a male homosexual. Through the game experience a gay's childhood, adolescence, prime and leap year through the whole life stage. During the game, the player can influence the entire life track of the protagonist through different choices made by himself.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 512MB VRAM. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 39 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yaoling: Mythical Journey ($19.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Mister Furry: Hot Muscles ($0.49, scores 58).

More about A Gay's Life

Of the 219 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 52 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

35% start to 8% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Truely a touching tribute to those living gay lives. The pinnacle of the interracial and interlingual homosexual community. This game is dedicated to the bravest and greatest gay of the 2020s: the genre defining, trend setting, booty cheek clapping, butthole sucking Chris the Brown Bootyhole Gyatterson of the Official Dickrod. May your gay philosophies of how to be gay be passed on for generations to come.
Kim Jong GoonRecommendedafter 2.7hApr 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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A Gay's Life scores 70/100 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/1147500/a-gay-s-life
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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 Sep 29, 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

Developer橙光游戏
Publisher橙光游戏
GenreRPG
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements8