Left on Read

Left on Read

Fair · RPG · 2020

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.

Length
0.9h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
79% positive
Length
0.9h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
79%
5,240 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2020

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 645 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

It’s March of 2020; you were just sent home from college because of the coronavirus, you have a few small regrets, mainly not telling someone how you really feel.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement48% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
Length0.9 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, HOME (free, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Plebby Quest: The Crusades ($19.99, scores 46).

Steam's global achievement data puts 48 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 8.8 times as long.

1 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 30, 16:47 UTC.

The drop-off

90% start to 48% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 16:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Left on Read scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1306580/left-on-read
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperWeston Bell-Geddes
PublisherSpookulele Games
GenreRPG
Released2020
Achievements13