A YEAR OF SPRINGS
BANGER · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 2h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($3.49)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 35% ($3.24)
- Last discount ended
- 19 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Experience the stories of Haru, Erika, and Manami, a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.
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
February 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $3.24. 32 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 30 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Unpacking ($19.99, scores 67) and When The Past Was Around ($7.99, scores 75) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $8.09. It costs $4.99.
Steam's global achievement data puts 47 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 313 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 310 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
73% start to 47% 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
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 05:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is overwhelmingly cute. The three main characters all have their unique journey's they must go through and by the end of it they have all grown significantly. The way each story is told from the pov of a different character was unexpected but it works very well. The message being told about friendship, love, and acceptance is done in such a satisfying way that even if you may be able to predict how the...
Wow, this game is something else. Not only the first game, but first piece of media to make me actually cry. The trans representation is incredibly well done. 10/10 recommend this game
Appreciate what the game is going for, but was not a fan of the writing, for instance the fact that being open with Haru about the issues booking the spa leads to a bad end , kind of made it look like you need to treat lgtb+ people with kid's gloves, instead of, you know, treating them like regular people
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A YEAR OF SPRINGS scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1688580/a-year-of-springsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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