ONE.
Skip · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$19.99Skip
On its price record
$10.72Fair
- Length
- 9.3h 14.1h to 100%
- Value
- $2.15/hr
- Reviews
- 80% of 396 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.72 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
The pioneering nakige that made a generation cry... Legendary '90s visual novel ONE. is back and better than ever with updated art, animations, and features!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory. Windows only.
The value story
29 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 25 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010) ($5.99, scores 79) and A Perfect Day ($19.99, scores 61) both outscore it.
More about ONE.
None of the 368 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 10, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Performance is awful. Japanese language version is broken - the moment character is supposed to say a line, sound doesn't play and no options are available aside from the quip skip. Trying to replay it from backlog will destroy your ears. 18+ scenes weren't included at all. If you want to play ONE ~Kagayaku Kisetsu e~, just emulate the original using PS1 emulator.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Has a lot of interesting ideas surrounding the "promise of eternity," the temporality of life, the change of seasons, stuff like that. I do kind of enjoy these ideas but I feel like I don't strongly feel much towards the actual relationships each of the routes are focused on, which is a shame because I think that part of the story should have been the anchor to make those ideas feel very resonant and emotional. My...
I've been trying to say something meaningful about this game ever since I completed it last month, but I don't think I can convey a proper sentiment, so I'll just share some sporadic thoughts. On one hand, people are generally right: despite being flawlessly executed as a remaster, ONE's script has barely withstood the test of time when compared to modern visual novels or even later KEY releases, and it has some...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
ONE. scores 43/100 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/2432100/oneReviews 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.