Once Upon a Jester
Worth it · Action · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.11.
- Length
- 3.2h 3.9h to 100%
- Value
- $4.68/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 310 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.11 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
Travel the kingdom as Jester with his best friend Sok to improvise theatre shows and perform on stages far and wide. Sing your hearts out, crack jokes and impress audiences to become the stars of the famous Royal Theatrical Spectacle!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 520 or Higher / AMD Radeon R3 or Higher, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 40 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $8.11 BANGER line 32 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion ($2.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Jenny LeClue - Detectivu ($19.99, scores 61).
More about Once Upon a Jester
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 99 percent. A 14-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 40 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 258 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
52% start to 40% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
BE-AU-TI-FUL!!!! Pure comedy with amazing, cozy gameplay. I love every aspect of that game and definitely will buy any sequel/prequel/spinoff if devs ever made one! 11/10 - bonus points for peak European humor! :D
2 more reviews
This game is adorable and genius. At one point, there is a video on the side of the screen of the two creators explaining a joke in the game. It is such a stark difference between the cartoonish graphics and their video that it was great. In one of the plays, Jester sang his heart out... Literally. The ambulance had to come and get him AND then he sings as an angel, which leaves the audience so bamboozled!! FYI, the...
A literal hidden gem. The gameplay is actually fun, not boring but not hard (you can crank up the difficulty if you want to, but it's just not for this game), the style also is very fitting. The best part is humour, which is just right for me, and it goes great on budget PC's. I even completed 100%, it wasn't as fun, but it definitely worth the price, so I really recommend it for like a chill night. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Once Upon a Jester scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1668190/once-upon-a-jesterReviews 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.