Storyteller
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $6.81/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520, 1 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7470, 1 GB, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Storyteller is an award-winning puzzle game about building stories. Start with a title, settings and characters and create a story that fits the story’s description. Play with stories of love, intrigue, crime, monsters, betrayal, and more!
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in March 2026. Its cuts run 34 percent off as a rule. There have been 26 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 13 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Unforeseen Incidents ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55).
27 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,453 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
54% start to 18% 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
Players
43 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 02:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
PROS + Clever and unique puzzle concept. + Charming visual presentation. + Simple but satisfying storytelling mechanics. + Easy to understand without being completely trivial. + Fun experimentation with character interactions. CONS - Relatively short. - Limited mechanical depth. - Some solutions can feel more like guessing the intended story. VERDICT Storyteller is a charming little puzzle game that does a lot with...
99% of the puzzles felt fair, balanced and satisfying. It's really impressive how many interactions there are between elements, each with unique animations. The devs trust that you can determine what is being communicated through expression, which feels very seamless. As for a complaint, why on earth isn't there an audio slider in the options? I had to turn the game down in Windows sound mixer which is a nonsensical...
It's an okay game. I think I'd only recommend it part way, buy it while on sale maybe. Sometimes it's hard to figure out what the game wants you to do, or the order to do it in; and a couple solutions that should work aren't counted by the game for some reason. Decent puzzles and I liked the ending. Really happy that in at least a good amount of the levels, you can put the women or men together to be gay :D
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Storyteller scores 56/100 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/1624540/storytellerReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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