DIVINATION

DIVINATION

Fair · Short indie · 2019

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
0.5h 0.9h to 100%
Value
$3.98/hr
Reviews
89% of 210 positive
It needs 45% off ($1.09) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.09 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each 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

Holding it back
Value$3.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews89% 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 172 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

"What if you're born into this world without your permission?" DIVINATION is a very short visual novel where you act as a fortune teller in a futuristic world. Talk and listen to people's stories, then foresee their future using the runes they had drawn.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or DX11 with feature level 9.3 capabilities., 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has been discounted 33 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Primordia ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Nobody Wants to Die ($24.99, scores 43).

More about DIVINATION

Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 186 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 93 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Divination is a short but striking narrative experience that uses minimalist interaction to explore heavy philosophical themes. Developed and published by Mojiken, the game positions itself somewhere between a visual novel and an interactive thought experiment, inviting players to contemplate fate, responsibility, and the emotional weight of decision-making in a bleak, cyberpunk-tinged future. Despite its modest...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hJan 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
The game is pretty cheap and quite short, but honestly, it's a great experience from start to finish. Well worth the price. Would recommend.
Joshua For President!Recommendedafter 1.4hJan 2026Read on Steam
I am beyond impressed. This game initially drew me in simply for its aesthetics-an impeccable, hypnotic aesthetic, bursting with personality and detail. And I'm glad to see that the rest of the elements live up to such an attractive aesthetic, not just its music, but its more than impeccable and impressive script. I have no way to explain what it is without spoiling it entirely, and I find it offensive to even have...
JAIR06Recommendedafter 1.0hSep 2025Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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DIVINATION scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1180250/divination
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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 30, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMojiken
PublisherMojiken
GenreShort indie
Released2019
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements1