A Musical Story
Fair · Narrative · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $2.24, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2022. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h 7.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.02/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 302 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
‘A Musical Story’ is a rhythm game set against a 70s backdrop. Explore the memories of Gabriel, a young man trying to come to terms with his situation through the connections to his musical memory.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, integrated HD, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.24. It has been discounted 44 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Wandersong ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats One Hand Clapping ($14.99, scores 49).
More about A Musical Story
This site sampled 235 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to July 2026.
The main story runs 2.2 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 3.5 times as long.
The drop-off
95% start to 6% 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
What players say
good potential, but bad technically ★★★☆☆ As someone with a sense of rhythm and a musical ear, but not a musician, I found this game extremely hard to play. I had to just guess the rhythm, and eventually I kept losing again and again. Halfway through the game I had to turn on the help mode, because it was just impossible to relax and simply play. But it's still not as bad as it might seem. The game has potential: I...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
There are a couple of solid tracks in the game but the gameplay is just lackluster. It's more of a stylistic Simon says game with 3 buttons: left, right and both arrow keys together. Riff plays with arrow keys once and you have to mimic it perfectly, else it loops. If done correctly, the audio will loop in the background and the process will repeat with a new instrument loop. Do this multiple times per chapter (24...
просто ахеренно. За всі свої 37 грн на знижчі, кожна копійка не зря, ахеренна історія і ахуєнний гемплау, заєбок
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A Musical Story scores 61/100 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/1546100/a-musical-storyReviews 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.