The 39 Steps
Skip · Narrative · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 9 512MB card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Prepare to experience the original man-on-the-run thriller in a completely new way! There are secrets to be discovered, locations to be explored and - above all - an incredible tale to be told in this ground-breaking interactive novel.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.49, set in October 2021. It has been discounted 75 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 8 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 27 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 92 percent of its genre. There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) outscores it, and so does Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
14% start to 8% 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
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
🎮 My Completely Unnecessary Love Letter to The 39 Steps 🎮 WHAT IN THE CINEMATIC, TEA-SOAKED, EARLY-20TH-CENTURY BLACK MAGIC IS THIS THING? I launched The 39 Steps expecting a game. You know... a GAME. Buttons. Challenges. Puzzles. The occasional opportunity to commit harmless digital property damage. Instead I got dragged into one of the most captivating storytelling experiences I've ever had and now I'm standing...
Got caught in a spy thriller just as I forgot my apartment keys - now I'm running on trains with a secret in my sock and suspect every man with tea. This game sticks like a rainy night detective novel.
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.
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The 39 Steps scores 46/100 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/234940/the-39-stepsThe 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 7, price as of Sep 24.
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