Essays on Empathy
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$12.99Skip
On its price record
$7.47Fair
- Length
- 4.2h 7.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.09/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 211 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.47 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
A curated compilation of Deconstructeam's best efforts in seeking new narrative experiences in games. Explore 10 unique, offbeat tales including "De Tres al Cuarto," a brand new short experience exclusive to the compilation about a couple of two-bit comedians trying to make it big.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 36 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) and Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) both outscore it.
The drop-off
61% start to 10% 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
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2 more reviews
Essays of Empathy is a fascinating collection of short, narrative-driven experiments. I genuinely enjoyed my time with it overall, and the sheer variety of concepts kept me intrigued enough to see the package through to the near-end. (Finished most, but gave up on 3 games) However, it's nothing to write home about and leaves me neutral. A handful of the games suffer from clunky controls, and the collection defaults...
I mostly only watched the documentary that was also presented alongside the games and the art involved to make said games, but so far I enjoyed it. I can't easily pinpoint why I would recommend it (although I will try), especially since I can believe people think this is too much to pay for a collection of games that are (mostly) free elsewhere. I guess, in the end, the simplest way to explain why is to say that the...
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Cite this score
Essays on Empathy scores 44/100 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/1586880/essays-on-empathyReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.