q.u.q.
BANGER · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2023.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $1.10/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($0.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
q.u.q. is a surreal visual novel about a somewhat crude girl that wanders a desert.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was April 2023. 19 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 87. The current cut is what makes it a 90.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, Smile For Me ($12.99, scores 72) and McPixel 3 ($9.99, scores 72), are both worse buys on this math.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $2.17. It costs $0.99.
Of the 404 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 1,026 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 56 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
64% start to 40% 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
Kinda short but defo still worth ur money, I got all achievements under 3hrs but still a very good visual novel. I also like that it is translated to a lot of languages and at least the spanish translation is very natural and accurate. The visuals make it really unique and they lowk remind me of the ENA artstyle.
Buy MAHOUTEQ! instead. Strong way to start a recommended purchase, but this game is a rough draft basically of the devs early work, it feels unfinished like just a demo; most of its players (& myself) are totally lost on what happened! But, it was good if you want more of motijans' work, the visuals and soundtrack are really great, the Steam store page sells it really well but then the hype doesn't carry over while...
The art is quite nice, the setup is intriguing. That's about it, the characters are few, and are more like plot devices, tone is wildly inconsistent for no real benefit in my eyes, the routes barely differ outside of the endings, the surrealism is a nice flavor but I struggle find any substance. The story tries to establish a lot of things, but the setting has basically no internal consistency, it's a struggle to...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
q.u.q. scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2302140/q-u-qReviews 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 1.
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