Snapshot

Snapshot

Skip · Narrative · 2012

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 28, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
4.5h 20.2h to 100%
Value
$2.22/hr
Reviews
73% of 260 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 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
Engagement2% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.22/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews73% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 72% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 3 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

Snapshot is the tale of a lone robot lost in an abandoned world. Armed with only his trusty camera, Pic sets forth on his great adventure. A camera might not seem like enough for a puzzle platforming adventure, but this camera is different from most: It has the ability to capture and remove from the world the very objects that it...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, nVidia 8800 GTS or Equivalent, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

Across all 12 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 26 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 67 percent. On the same math Pinstripe ($14.99, scores 49) and Munin ($0.79, scores 63) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Snapshot

Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.

The main story runs 4.5 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 4.5 times as long.

The drop-off

89% start to 2% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Snapshot scores 28/100 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/204220/snapshot
Embed the live badge

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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-1
Critics74
Players73
Metacritic critics · 260 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRetro Affect
PublisherRetro Affect
GenreNarrative
Released2012
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements36