Backstage Pass
Skip · Strategy · 2016
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$29.99Skip
On its price record
$19.68Fair
- Length
- 7.2h 29.4h to 100%
- Value
- $4.17/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 279 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.68 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 588 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
A visual novel/sim game about life, love, and working in the entertainment industry. Play as makeup artist Sian Goodin as she navigates the world of showbiz. Make friends, forge business relationships, and maybe even find romance!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX or OpenGL compatible card. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 34 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 84 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 23 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, My Time at Portia ($5.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Youtubers Life ($19.99, scores 44).
More about Backstage Pass
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
7.2 hours to finish it, 29 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
27% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Overall Score from me: 5.5/10. I realise that the game is not yet complete, if It ever gets updated and fully finished I'll adjust my review accordingly. Keep in mind, that I've played many many many Otome style visual novel games, and there are basically three main types that exist. Stat building, choice maker/visual novel, point and click/adventure. This one is mainly a stat builder but also is reliant on choices...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I got this game quite a while ago, and just recently that I've decided to finish all the routes. It was totally worth it, wow. This is one of the best western otome VNs I've played so far. The animation at the beginning of the game is amazing! The story is interesting, the characters are really well developed and believable, and the dialogues were fun to read. The VA of this game is insanely good . It's fully voiced...
I've tried to play this more than once, always having to resort to guides and generally not having a good time. A guide is entirely necessary to succeed in this game and as others have said it doesn't feel like playing -- it feels like following a checklist. The fact that I've spent 11 hours playing this and failed to get beyond the common route is a pretty good indicator of this.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Backstage Pass scores 45/100 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/288220/backstage-passReviews 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.