I Did Not Buy This Ticket
Fair · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.1h 2h to 100%
- Value
- $7.26/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 396 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.42 or less.
Buy now or wait
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
Weep for the dead! In this short psychological horror story, play as a professional mourner travelling between funerals. Ride a nightmarish bus whose destination depends on how you choose to face your traumas.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DirectX 11 compatible, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
31 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 83 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Cat Lady ($8.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats THRESHOLD ($9.99, scores 50).
More about I Did Not Buy This Ticket
Of the 344 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 207 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% start to 9% 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
What players say
A short, surreal visual novel about death and grief The art is beautiful, yet unsettling at the same time. I can't say much about the UI, besides being well done, tho lacking a "rewind" option. Maybe it's because I'm lacking the right mindset for a serious game like this-in fact, I admit I didn't give it enough time to really take it in and engage with it-but the game didn't leave a strong impression on me... I feel...
2 more reviews
A wonderful exploration of loss, grief and self-reflection and utterly, utterly beautiful to look at. The art style fits the surreal atmosphere of the narrative perfectly - this is the first visual novel that ever got me excited to unlock new images in the game's gallery, simply because each one of them is a piece of art
Fantastic art. Enjoyed the short playthrough and high replay value to get different outcomes.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
I Did Not Buy This Ticket scores 51/100 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/2158650/i-did-not-buy-this-ticketReviews 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.