On Your Tail
Fair · RPG · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 17.7h 27.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.13/hr
- Reviews
- 88% of 415 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.54 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 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 cozy detective adventure where you play as a vacation-bound writer who stumbles upon an idyllic town plagued by an enigmatic thief. Crack the case in this charming seaside town, build relationships, and unravel secrets in a world full of quirky characters and heartwarming stories.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 2GB or AMD Radeon R7 240, 2GB or Intel UHD 770. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 14 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Snacko ($24.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
More about On Your Tail
Of the 290 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
77% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 5 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 15:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
What an amazing game. I loved the characters and the city, and the soundtrack is really good. Bravo to the devs.
2 more reviews
I'm currently 20 hours in the game, maybe more since i like playing offline, and it's been very pleasant and challenging. What i want to point out here is the english version of the game. Some text boxes are too small for the text, which result with a [...] at the end of the box, with no way of seeing the rest (that i could find). Also also the translation itself isn't perfect. The message comes across well but...
It has been a long time since I felt genuinely sad for a game to end. While there is detective work, the main focus is on discovering yourself and growing as a person with the help of the friends you make along the way. This game should be far more popular and I hope we get DLC or a sequel. If I could, I'd wipe my memory so I could experience it for the first time again.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
On Your Tail scores 65/100 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/2132560/on-your-tailReviews 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.