The Sin
Fair · Narrative · 2021
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 234 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 578 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Series. 1280x720 or better required, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 17 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 83 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Paper Bride ($7.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure ($15.99, scores 53).
More about The Sin
None of the 220 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to August 2026.
What players say
"Old sins, you know, have long shadows..." The visual novel by the multimedia laboratory "Baba Nyura" turned out to be extremely exciting and mystical. The authors managed to convey the atmosphere of rustic mysticism and russian chthony. Dark folk in all its glory! Perhaps I will give an unpopular opinion, but I liked another novel from this publisher called "Echoes" more. "The Sin" lacked the personal drama and the...
2 more reviews
I actually have mixed feelings about this one. I really like a good mystery and horror story and even though it produced kind of an interesting one the English translation was extremely horrible and made the story fall a bit flat for me. In other words I just felt that it took away from the story somewhat. So many spelling errors, I don't mind a little here and there but it was on pretty much every sentence. I also...
If you are interested in how peasants traditionally percieve things like witches, death, demons and other supernatural stuff, this one is right for you. The music and the art fit the story well.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
The Sin scores 64/100 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/1543460/the-sinReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.