Once Again
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 1h
- Value
- $3.99/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 70% ($1.19)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 77% ($0.91)
- Last discount ended
- 23 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Direct X 10 compatible video card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet? An interactive story about a boy who spends his summers wandering between past and present... After meeting her, summer will never be the same again...Who is she, and what journey awaits you?
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.91. That was February 2026. Its cuts run 66 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lil' Guardsman ($3.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Dordogne ($14.99, scores 62).
Steam's global achievement data puts 66 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 390 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 818 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 87 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
69% start to 66% 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
A short, beautiful and incredibly relaxing experience ❤️ After playing so many AAA games recently, i was honestly getting a little tired of them. Then I saw my friends buying this game and thought of buying it too. I always used to buy big budget AAA games but i was honestly tired of those games and wanted something relaxing. This game made me fall in love with small indie games. I have a few other indie games on my...
I sometimes wish I could go back in time just to see someone I love again. I know I am not the only one who feels that way. This game really hits my heart. It is about a boy who, after making a wish on his birthday, can travel between the past and the present. He gets to see his mom again and relive moments that mean so much. But as beautiful as memories are, time does not stop and neither can we. Life keeps moving...
a time-travel visual novel about saying goodbye to a family member, unfortunately that's about it…the narrative feels too simplistic therefore it lacks any special emotional impact. another issue i have is with the gameplay, the camera must be adjusted to a specific angle before taking a shot leaving no creative freedom for the players
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Once Again scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2025610/once-againReviews 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 1.
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