Universe For Sale

Universe For Sale

Skip · Narrative · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 41, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
5.3h
Value
$2.83/hr
Reviews
79% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
6.4h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.83
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$14.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
79%
406 reviews, as of Sep 29
Metacritic
80
critic score
Players
35K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Any Graphics card with more than 2GB of Storage Space.. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

A space station nestled in the clouds of Jupiter. A bizarre bazaar where a young, worried woman crafts entire universes in the palm of her hand. A mysterious cultist who's stripped the flesh from his bones in order to reach enlightenment. Here, there's a universe for sale. You buying?
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement10% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Value$2.83/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length5.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach35K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds0 of 107 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $9.74. That was September 2026. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 25 in the 3 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 34 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 ($3.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Through Abandoned: The Underground City ($5.99, scores 36).

Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

39% start to 10% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 5.3-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Universe For Sale scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1627840/universe-for-sale
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players-1
Critics
80
Players
79
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 406 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTmesis Studio
PublisherAkupara Games
GenreNarrative
Released2023
Achievements17