A Taste of the Past

A Taste of the Past

Worth it · Narrative · 2022

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
0.4h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
98% positive
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
98%
1,781 reviews, as of Sep 24
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.

What do you do when you lose someone you love? A Taste of the Past is an emotional sidescroller about reconnecting with your Chinese culture while navigating a train to the afterlife. Featuring a wholesome story, cooking minigames, and hope.
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

What we assumed
  • Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
Raising the score
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews98% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 97% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre.

1 players were online in it when we last checked, on Sep 28, 02:47 UTC.

Players

1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 02:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
A Taste of the Past scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 1,781 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1706930/a-taste-of-the-past
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 24.

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Details

DeveloperSondering Studio
PublisherSondering Studio
GenreNarrative
Released2022