Once Alive
Skip · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$11.99Skip
On its price record
$9.70Fair
- Length
- 1.5h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $7.99/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 497 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $9.70 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
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About the game
A story-driven, first-person adventure game offering a cinematic experience. Embark on a journey to HaustVille, an abandoned settlement in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore your surroundings and uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of the last survivors.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 1650 4GB / AMD RX 570 4GB, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
20 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 60 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 25 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of the Sea ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Paradise Lost ($14.99, scores 9).
More about Once Alive
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 4 of the 372 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
53% start to 28% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
A decent walking sim by a solo dev and it has voice acting? noice. I'm not gonna say this is the greatest thing I have ever played but I did get very absorbed in the story and trying to piece together the notes and little scenes you come across into a post apocalypse story. Is it a little janky? yes, but its fine. The only real issue I had was trying to fix a wire and figuring out that it had a very specific...
2 more reviews
If you see this in sale and like walking simulators and knowledge that the actaully good ones are quite rare, you should definitely buy! While it is not mindblowing in gameplay the amosphere and especially graphics compensate the issues easily. The story is quite good also keeping its players tangled into the mystery and how stakes get higher personally for protagonist on each step - unfortunately without spoiling...
very impressive game for a solo developer ! I really enjoyed the short story and simple gameplay, worth playing :)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Once Alive scores 47/100 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/2336440/once-aliveReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.