Fading Echo

Fading Echo

Fair · RPG · 2026

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
9.5h
Value
$2.10/hr
Reviews
95% positive
It needs 44% off ($11.12) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Cite this score

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Last discount ended
14 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
9.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$2.10
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
108 reviews, as of Aug 6
Released
2026

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Equivalent. Windows only.

Fading Echo is a fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG where creativity fuels combat. Manipulate water, trigger chain reactions, and shift through surreal worlds as One, a young Legend on a mission to save a dying desertscape from the grip of the Paradox corruption.
Description from the Steam store page.

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$2.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews95% of 108 reviews, scored as 87%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length9.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 71 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was September 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 73 days tracked here, most recently in September 2026. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 10 percent on value. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Darkest Tales — Into the Nightmare (free, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Tap Ninja - Idle game (free, scores 57).

The drop-off

85% start to 1% 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Fading Echo scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2467880/fading-echo
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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 Aug 6, price as of Oct 1.

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Details

DeveloperEmeteria
PublisherNew Tales
GenreRPG
Released2026
Achievements30