No Umbrellas Allowed
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$18.67Fair
- Length
- 11.1h
- Value
- $1.80/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 1,482 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $18.67 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
About the game
Reveal the true value of the items coming into the shop. Each item has their own history. Dig deep to see what is behind them and become an expert appraiser. Begin a tug of war with customers. With their own expectations and knowledge, they never give up on money.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 960, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 33 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Beholder: Conductor ($13.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 ($14.99, scores 21).
More about No Umbrellas Allowed
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 11.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 4 of the 570 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to October 2026.
The drop-off
81% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
This game is a real gem once you get past its rough edges. Some of the translations aren't perfect and a few mechanics aren't fully explained, so a little of the original intent feels lost along the way. That said, revisiting in 2026, the translation is noticeably better than it was around the time of the initial release when I had originally picked this up. Once you do understand the mechanics it is a very fun game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Overall fun, though I think more specific feedback for when the player makes a mistake is necessary Because what do you mean this bag that I appraised as 1600v is "not a knockoff, but not worth the full price." the customer wants to get it for 16v??? It just becomes a gamble when buying expensive things because I never know what I got wrong and just keep making mistakes without knowing what the mistakes are.
No Umbrellas Allowed has players managing a shop in a city where greed is considered a punishable crime. Players must appraise items and apply tags from their manual to identify various details. The number of appraisal tools and tags increase as the game progresses, making it feel very reminiscent of Papers Please. The core gameplay loop seems promising, but the fun of it is repeatedly spoiled by unclear language...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
No Umbrellas Allowed scores 49/100 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/1301390/no-umbrellas-allowedReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.