Closer the Distance
Fair · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8h 11.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 296 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.74 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
Closer the Distance is a slice-of-life sim that tells a deeply emotional story about the connections between family and friends in the face of tragedy. Unearth long kept secrets, repair strained relationships, and help your loved ones move on.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon r9 200. Windows only.
The value story
22 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 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 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Unpacking ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Life is Strange: Double Exposure ($19.99, scores 20).
More about Closer the Distance
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 248 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
52% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 04:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
wonderfully moving story about a small community of people and how they deal with their loss. 10/10 for unique gameplay and story!
2 more reviews
One minute in and I was already to close in distance, hurt, wanted it to be not true and everyone to get better. At the end, not everything was going well but the people are developing, changing. I don't know, if I will have the power to come back and help to bring the best future to the people of Yesterby (minus "I-am-the-only-mourning" Pia and "I-will-waste-the budget-on-marketing-a-non-existing-product" Jasper)...
Despite a character inclusion I hated (Laul) and the systems falling a bit apart towards the end, this game was incredible. Leveraging our familiarity with The Sims to tell a story about managing grief and living with the sudden loss of a loved one was brilliant, and I enjoyed every minute. I don't understand the people who expected something more from the ending... Grief doesn't end, you just learn to live with it.
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Cite this score
Closer the Distance scores 57/100 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/1991300/closer-the-distanceReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.