Thirty Flights of Loving
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.3h
- Value
- $16.63/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, OpenGL-compatible, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.24, set in December 2013. It has been discounted 52 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 13 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 13 weeks.
It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 81 percent. The Novelist ($4.99, scores 32) outscores it, and so does Proteus ($9.99, scores 32). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 88 against 64 percent.
6 of the 265 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 38 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 1,178 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 92 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.3 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 2.3 times as long.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
What players say
I should write a review because this game blew my socks off when I played it back in the day, and I still think about it and come back to it. I don't want to oversell it too much because its basically around a 15-20min long story told through first person perspective and there are no choices or skill elements, BUT the reason I think it's so amazing is it is so creative, tells its story in such an interesting way...
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Thirty Flights of Loving scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/214700/thirty-flights-of-lovingThe 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 Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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