Richard & Alice
Skip · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 3h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 431 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.19 (80% off). Calls like this were right 86% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Richard and Alice are prisoners. Both their cells have a leather sofa and a state-of-the-art computer. But only Richard’s has a TV. Outside, the snow falls. It has done for some time. Elsewhere, they say, parts of the world have been rendered an inhospitable desert, the earth parched and cracked. People live in the zones now.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compatible, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
61 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Loco Motive ($17.99, scores 72) and The Blackwell Legacy ($4.99, scores 74) both outscore it.
The drop-off
28% start to 6% 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
What players say
Sigh. The plot was interesting, the overall metaphor was great and I wasn't terribly bothered by the less than stellar graphics, but the gamplay is poor and overall I found this game predictable, easy and bland. The level designs left a lot to be desired (lots of open space which is painstakingly slow to move across, tons of repeated sprites/tiles, almost no interactivity with anything), useless "cut scenes" that...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's an interesting premise, and the plot points in the beginning are promising, but does fall aparft towards the end, and they could have done much more with this. As a game it doesn't work that well IMO, and the story isn't so good that you can give the poor gameplay a pass. First of all, it's ugly, graphics usually don't bother me if it's simple but functional, but in this case it just look amateurish to the...
Richard & Alice is a story-driven point-and-click adventure game that could be considered a thriller and a mystery title. However, it leaves too much to the observer's interpretation, which made me think it's either rushed or falls short without the developers ' intentions. As the title implies, you play as two protagonists called Richard and Alice who ended up in prison for different reasons after the world fell...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Richard & Alice scores 32/100 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/279260/richard-aliceReviews 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.