Athanasy
Worth it · Short indie · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.32.
- Length
- 4.2h 12h to 100%
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 571 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.32 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
Deep beneath the surface of the dead Earth, the City, the last refuge of humanity, hides. Engineering genius and efforts of all mankind; a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps the remnants of civilization one step away from total extinction.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, with 512 MB VRAM compatible with DirectX 9, 809 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
51 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 45 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $5.32, a level the record has reached 20 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 3 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream ($9.99, scores 65).
More about Athanasy
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 313 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026.
The main story runs 4.2 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 2.9 times as long.
The drop-off
64% start to 41% 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
What players say
Athanasy is a visual novel taking place in a depressing dystopian society, existing within a city that's entirely separated from the rest of the world. The game's world hits us with two obstacles at once - a deeply totalitarian system, where a minor mistake leads you to a catastrophic fate, and horrific biopunk elements and body horror, where disfigurement and mutilation are a normal part of the system. This VN...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Wow! What the actual f*** just happened?! First of all, the plot. I'm not gonna say too much, other than it is like if John Carpenter's "Thing" invaded the body of John Carpenter, who then went back in time and held Aldous Huxley at gunpoint inside of the Flesh that Hates gas fields, and told him to write the movie Equilibrium from memory. I'm pretty sure I got a bad, if not the worst ending. But I do know two key...
This is a very difficult review for me to write. On paper I love a game like this & I explicitly bought it because it was recommended to me. However ... this is no Steinsgate be that positive or negative. For starters, the game doesn't really let you emotionally bond with any character - it tries to but it doesn't quite work. The encounters are too brief, the characters too somber & unengaging & the few people you...
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Cite this score
Athanasy scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1769320/athanasyReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.