The Wreck
Fair · Narrative · 2023
The verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $5.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Mar 2023. Buy it now if you want it.
- Length
- 4.5h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.33/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 287 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.56 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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
In this 3D visual novel, follow failed screenwriter Junon as she attempts to make it through the most pivotal day in her life. Relive the past, alter the present, and embrace the future, or without your help, Junon’s story might end in a wreck.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 or better, ATI 7950 or better, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
March 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. Across all 31 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Myst ($20.99, scores 51).
More about The Wreck
Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 210 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
91% start to 35% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 03:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a heartbreaking, hopeful story about loss and the messy aftermath. It does a great job of showing the complexity of people. The game mechanics are interesting and you do get to make choices for how to respond to things that will affect the story. Though there is still a fairly unchangable way that things unfold. I recommend it for people who like visual stories.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Another purely narrative game... jumping right into this immediately after 1000xResist was interesting. The games are similar in that they're purely narrative experiences, without much in the way of game mechanics or player choice, but with presentation ideas that elevate them somewhat from a traditional visual novel. The Wreck tells the story of 3 generations of women in a family, centered around the incident of...
Rewind a memory back and forth so the viewpoint character can think up enough things to say to redo a conversation she just messed up. Rinse and repeat. Only problem that the conversations, memory, and main character aren't that interesting. It just drags. I found myself looking at the time too much to call this a success.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Wreck scores 67/100 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/1687960/the-wreckReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.