VARIOUS DAYLIFE
Skip · RPG · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $28.99.
- Length
- 28.9h 54h to 100%
- Value
- $1.00/hr
- Reviews
- 33% of 228 positive
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
About the game
An all-new RPG from SQUARE ENIX, created by the development team that worked on OCTOPATH TRAVELER and BRAVELY DEFAULT.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon R7 240 / Intel HD Graphics 530 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 26 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math TRIANGLE STRATEGY ($59.99, scores 47) and Those Who Rule ($17.99, scores 68) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about VARIOUS DAYLIFE
This site sampled 214 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 109 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 117 reviews written there were positive, against 33 percent overall, and those are 55 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
69% start to 2% 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 8, 11:57 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Definitely a mobile game. Primarily a side hustle simulator (don't actually participate in the side hustles) with jrpg elements. Can be zen, but not worth the full price so buy on sale.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Welcome to walking simulator 0.02 with an added 8 hours of work from Square Enix itself by a random intern! (Not really but you might be able to fool someone into believing that)
The game most people say is the worst thing Square has ever done, it's really not that bad. The game is mostly menu-based and really the only active gameplay is during battle. Outside of it, the gameplay loop consists mostly of doing various jobs to get money, train stats and learn new skills, and use the money you earn to level up yer party members, improve their gear and go on outings with 'em to improve yer mood...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
VARIOUS DAYLIFE scores 2/100 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/1897050/various-daylifeReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.