Aspire: Ina's Tale
Skip · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$12.99Skip
On its price record
$9.65Fair
- Length
- 3h 3.9h to 100%
- Value
- $4.33/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 470 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.65 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
Set out on a mystical adventure of self-discovery against the backdrop of fantastical landscapes of The Tower. Meet its dwellers and unravel their stories. Manipulate spirits to solve puzzles, and lead Ina on her path to freedom.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, 2 GB Memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 48 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 27 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Munin ($0.79, scores 63) outscores it, and so does Dreaming Sarah ($5.99, scores 75). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Aspire: Ina's Tale
1 of the 321 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026.
The drop-off
88% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Beautiful game. It was a nice way to spend an evening. It's short, the story is not complex, but the flow and art work is captivating and engaging. I enjoyed just watching the backgrounds scroll across the screen. The puzzles were fun. The challenging areas did not take too much repetition to overcome. This is where many games fail where things need to repeated over and over again until fun gets overwhelmed by...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
For the price is a steal. This isn't the best game on Earth but it is pretty good. Very recommended. It is on the genre of abstract aesthetic impactful games. You won't have answers to everything but poetry is there and there are nice esoteric elements. Again, for what you pay for this game it is more than worth. Music is nice. Puzzles are nice. Gameplay has some quirks but it flows. Overall again, go for it.
Could have been good. But the sound effects for the dialogue was SO ANNOYING. I literally muted the game. I think the art style was very cool but those sound effects is what ruined it and completely destroyed the experience.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Aspire: Ina's Tale scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1720090/aspire-ina-s-taleReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.