her tears were my light
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.99, a BANGER if it drops to $2.02.
- Length
- 0.5h 0.5h to 100%
- Value
- $5.98/hr
- Reviews
- 99% of 862 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.02 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.69 (10% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
a love story between time and space
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 or DirectX 11. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
19 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 15 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $2.02. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games closest to it, Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 12) and Life is Strange: True Colors ($17.99, scores 66) both come in lower.
More about her tears were my light
Steam's global achievement data puts 78 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 305 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 99 percent of the 732 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 94 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
90% start to 78% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
her tears were my light scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2112520/her-tears-were-my-lightReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.