Fate of Kai

Fate of Kai

Fair · Narrative · 2021

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1h 1.2h to 100%
Value
$6.99/hr
Reviews
93% of 227 positive
It needs 51% off ($3.40) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.40 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 5 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$6.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% of 227 reviews, scored as 88%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 166 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

Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative point-and-click adventure to uncover Kai’s fate.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, GeForce 6 or Radeon X 1000, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 24 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 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 15 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 89 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55).

More about Fate of Kai

Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 80 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

95% start to 28% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

This is a comic book-style point-and-click adventure, and it tells you about a child's adventures in a fantasy world. there are no dialogues or voiceovers in this game, and the story is presented with pictures. There is one type of puzzle: choosing the right linear action that the character takes in some situations. It started out easy, solvable, and plausible, but when you reach the last chapters, suddenly it gets...
ArtemurRecommendedafter 1.3hAug 2023Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Starting neat but got lame towards the end. Paid less then $2 so it wasn't too horrible.
SilentJohnNot recommendedafter 1.6hDec 2022Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Fate of Kai scores 57/100 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/1426480/fate-of-kai
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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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTRYLIGHT GAME STUDIO
PublisherTheGamePublisher.com
GenreNarrative
Released2021
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12