a new life.
Worth it · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99, a BANGER if it drops to $1.57.
- Length
- 0.5h
- Value
- $5.98/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable., 82 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
When your loved one hurts you, what do you do? A classic love story about letting go.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was May 2020. In 6 years of price history it has never once been discounted. The math puts its BANGER price at $1.57. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, WitchSpring3 Re:Fine - The Story of Eirudy - ($19.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: True Colors ($59.99, scores 47).
2 of the 371 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 2,018 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 91 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
84% start to 36% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
a new life. scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1297160/a-new-lifeReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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