Amelie

Amelie

Worth it · Strategy · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $3.99.

Length
1.1h 1.9h to 100%
Value
$3.63/hr
Reviews
92% of 468 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$3.63/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 336 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A psychological mystery yuri visual novel about a girl named Amelie. Forbidden from leaving the house, Amelie awaits the arrival of her long time penpal, Sofia, to her dear friend Lilika’s dismay. What secrets will Sofia unravel that were best kept buried?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

37 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 45 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oxenfree ($9.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Martha Is Dead ($29.99, scores 35).

More about Amelie

Of the 336 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 237 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

68% start to 53% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Amelie is a short psychological horror visual novel that uses isolation, romance, and conflicting perspectives to create an unsettling mystery without overstaying its welcome. Developed and published by Two and a Half Studios, the story takes place primarily within a lonely manor far from civilization. Amelie lives there with her close companion Lilika and has been forbidden from leaving the house. Her sheltered...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 9.4h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review
Remarkable how each ending gives more context for the overall plot, and the endings even expand on each other
belladdelucaRecommendedafter 1.9hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Amelie scores 70/100 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/1835810/amelie
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTwo and a Half Studios
PublisherTwo and a Half Studios
GenreStrategy
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements7