Vanity Fair: The Pursuit

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit

Worth it · RPG · 2024

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $6.99.

Length
4.2h
Value
$1.66/hr
Reviews
87% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
4.2h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.66
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$6.99
as of Sep 25
Reviews
87%
4,597 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 集成, 23 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.
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$1.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length4.2 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds15 of 800 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 $3.49. That was July 2026. It has gone on sale once in the 71 days tracked here, most recently in July 2026.

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Back to the Dawn ($17.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Cyber Manhunt 2: New World - The Hacking Simulator ($12.99, scores 66).

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 454 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

95% start to 27% 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

Players

13 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 14:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Played Mandate of Heaven and it was awesome so i tried playing vanity fair. Definitely historical drama is way better and more production quality and story compared to vanity fair. Really looking forward for developer to make new one, hopefully as good as the Mandate of Heaven. Alternatively Vanity Fair is not bad and really like the actress Xiang Weijing acting as Guan Haiyue. She was also Liu Nian in Mandate of...
にShinigamiRecommendedafter 8.8hJun 2026Read on Steam
เกมส์ดีมากครับ แต่ถ้าเราติดใจกับคนแรกที่เป็นแฟนเราไปแล้วจะรู้สึกไปต่อค่อนข้างยากหน่อย ผมลองมาหมดแล้ว ลองเล่นกันดูครับ
AuArtRecommendedafter 12hMay 2026Read on Steam
I have a very mix feelings about Vanity Fair : The Pursuit. Protagonist and other actresses has some solid foundation of acting skills. That's a plus. However, I cannot classify this title as the best FMV or S tier in my list. A well-made FMV must always emphasis the point of view from a player. You're making a FMV , you need to consider how the player feels. You must provide the freedom to a player , allowing them...
DrRosi.BNot recommendedafter 22hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2758000/vanity-fair-the-pursuit
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Details

Developer木焱工作室
PublisherWave Games
GenreRPG
Released2024
Achievements32