SPY×ANYA: Operation Memories

SPY×ANYA: Operation Memories

Skip · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$49.99Skip

On its price record

$19.69Fair

Length
10.5h 25.4h to 100%
Value
$4.76/hr
Reviews
84% of 248 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.69 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

Holding it back
Value$4.76/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 204 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Anya Forger has to create a photo diary! Collect memories at school and other exciting locations. Play with over 15 minigames inspired by the popular manga series! Can you help Anya fill up her photo diary?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 960 [4 GB] / Radeon RX 570 [4 GB], 10 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 17 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut 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 39 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lil' Guardsman ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats My Friend Peppa Pig ($39.99, scores 38).

More about SPY×ANYA: Operation Memories

This site sampled 204 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026.

10.5 hours to finish it, 25 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.

The drop-off

17% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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
2 when we last checked, on Oct 9, 20:56 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I am enjoying this game so far, though definitely a game you wait to be on sale for. The controls are a little flipped for me but I think that is a regional deal and it threw me off for a bit. Very cozy game that you can pick up and put down easily. I cannot play some of the mini games well though because of physical disabilities (rapid smashing buttons hurts) though I enjoy hunting for the picture spots on the...
LyntleRecommendedafter 9.7hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
SPY×ANYA: Operation Memories, developed by GrooveBoxJapan and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, takes a distinctly gentle and unconventional approach to adapting the Spy × Family universe into a video game. Rather than focusing on espionage, combat, or high-stakes missions, it leans fully into the everyday life of Anya Forger, building its entire experience around small moments, family interactions, and...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 14hMar 2026Read on Steam
With the price, it is disappointing with the lack of content to do and how short the side? stories are with all the characters. With there being multiple in-game days before the weekend photoshoot, after a certain point, playing starts to feel like a chore. I will say, I was enjoying it at the start though, sooo yeah... really started to hit me that I should've gone for other games that I've been wanting for years...
Salted RatNot recommendedafter 74hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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SPY×ANYA: Operation Memories scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2170370/spy-anya-operation-memories
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGrooveBoxJapan
PublisherBandai Namco Entertainment
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements19