Back to the Dawn
Worth it · RPG · 2025
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 20%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 15h
- Value
- $1.20/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 25% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($19.19)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 750ti, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
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
The lowest price on record is $16.99, set in June 2024. 27 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 15 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $17.99 at 25 percent off still sits 6 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history. $15.56 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
This sale is doing real work. 77 at list, 82 today.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tails Noir: Prologue (free, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Paradise Killer ($19.99, scores 72).
81 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
10 of the 794 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 322 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 15 hours. Doing everything runs 69, 4.6 times as long.
Players
263 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 13:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Back to the Dawn scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1735700/back-to-the-dawnReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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