Ageless

Ageless

Skip · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 3, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
10h 17.1h to 100%
Value
$1.50/hr
Reviews
56% of 407 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Raising the score
Engagement5% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews56% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 58% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 56 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

Ageless is a story driven puzzle platformer where you must alter the age of animals and plant life around you to progress. Play as Kiara, a young girl who braves through heartache and loss as she journeys across a mysterious world to discovers its secrets and herself.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX650 1GB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 60 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Celeste ($4.99, scores 97) and La-Mulana 2 ($24.99, scores 71) both outscore it.

More about Ageless

72 on Metacritic, 56 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

15% start to 5% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Ageless scores 3/100 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/1210150/ageless
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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.

Critics vs players-16
Critics72
Players56
Critic darling, cooler with players. Read recent reviews before buying.
Metacritic critics · 407 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOne More Dream Studios
PublisherTeam17 Digital Ltd
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12