To the Moon
BANGER · RPG · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A story-driven experience about two doctors traversing backwards through a dying man's memories to artificially fulfill his last wish.
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The value story
June 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. It has been discounted 87 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77).
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 15 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 4,089 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Players
86 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
To the Moon is bitter sweet pixel-adventure game about how love and live and last wishes. Its not very long, the game elements are simple but it is nicely made and a very emotional story. Definitely something for people enjoying story driven and emotional touching of games.
It's an emotional game with surprisingly good world-building... The plot and music are the main attractions that will stay with you even after you finish the game... "Then we can always regroup on the moon, silly!"
Jogo absolutamente expetacular! Experiência curta, porém única. Narrativa impecável de como se contar uma história, personagens cativantes e uma imersão única. Se permita jogar esses jogos, leva em torno de 4 horas mas que ficarão marcadas na sua memória. Chorei e me emcione demais, jogos são feitos pra isso te fazer sentir, afinal são obras de arte. importante ressaltar pra jogar sem spoilers. Já estou querendo...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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To the Moon scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/206440/to-the-moonThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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