Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Fair · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$6.66BANGER
- Length
- 6.4h 10.7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 558 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.66 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
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750 (2048 VRAM) or equivalent, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
36 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $6.66, a level the record has reached 19 times.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, What Comes After ($4.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats The Uncertain: Light At The End ($9.99, scores 14).
More about Gerda: A Flame in Winter
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 11 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
None of the 328 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026.
At 6.4 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
75% start to 1% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 17, 02:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Gerda does something very interesting for a choice-based game : there is no "best path" where you can save everyone. No matter what you do or who you trust, there are people you will let down and promises you will break. No matter what your intentions are, there are people who will refuse to help and friendships you will let go of. What is gripping on a meta level and really puts you into Gerda's shoes is that not...
2 more reviews
Wow. Just wow. Art is stunning. Graphics do not need to be ultra realistic to be beautiful. The visuals look like a watercolor painting. And the story?? It's agonizing, everything makes you second guess yourself.
A game that teaches about war and humanity with unique art style and engaging story. I would even recommend kids in school to play it as part of the history class ngl. It is mature and historical about the event but also fun as a game. Truly one of the best designed games in the recent time.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Gerda: A Flame in Winter scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1771360/gerda-a-flame-in-winterReviews 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.