Actual Sunlight
Skip · Narrative · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 1.2h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 617 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 287 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
A short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 41 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 49 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, LISA: The Painful ($19.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Home ($4.99, scores 17).
More about Actual Sunlight
Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 384 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 71 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
Actual Sunlight is one of those short experiences that lingers long after the screen goes dark. It doesn't try to entertain you in the traditional sense. Instead, it quietly, honestly explores the crushing weight of loneliness, depression, and the feeling of being stuck in a life that never quite turned out the way you hoped. As someone living with a permanent spinal cord injury, parts of this hit uncomfortably...
2 more reviews
i recommend it, its great short game. it shows how being lonely is hard and how u can easily get into wrong train of thought. i wasnt expecting things to end up like that but it sure has a message for people who are struggling.
Beautiful, agonizing experience. So often felt like a story written about my own pitiful life, all that was missing was the crippling dependency on substances to do literally anything, from feeding myself to leaving my home to falling asleep. I frequently just stared at the paragraphs and laughed heartily at the absurdity of having internal monologues I'm so familiar with spelt out to me. Made me simultaneously glad...
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Cite this score
Actual Sunlight scores 33/100 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/288040/actual-sunlightReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.