Pretentious Game
Fair · Short indie · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $1.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1h 1.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.99/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 288 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 578 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Enjoy the uncluttered and peculiar aesthetics of Pretentious Game and plunge wholeheartedly into a poetic and deep story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 3D accelerated, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
26 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 83 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 72 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Zup! 8 ($1.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats The Howler (free, scores 47).
What players say
It's an awesome game, touching story, cheap to buy, worth keeping to wait for new chapters. Highly recommended.
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
Pretentious Game scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/279540/pretentious-gameReviews 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.