Empathy: Path of Whispers
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 7, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 4.4h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 60% of 220 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
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About the game
Empathy: Path of Whispers is an atmospheric and story-driven adventure game where you explore a seemingly abandoned world through the emotions and memories of the people who once inhabited it, trying to restore the world’s lost balance by journeying through its past.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti or ATI HD6950 or equivalent, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
106 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Unfinished Swan ($3.74, scores 65) and Layers of Fear 2 (2019) ($1.99, scores 32) both outscore it.
The drop-off
49% start to 3% 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
Sadly this game is giving me severe Motion sickness. I think what causes this is the Graphics, my brain cant really work with graphics that change in detail so much. This game has a lot of very drastically different graphic resolutions, some objects look like they have 1000x the pixel count then others, there is no real universal resolution under the objects/world. Its like some graphics are hand drawn, some are...
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Game has a fatal bug in act 2 where a required scene does not trigger properly. Bug has been known for over 7 years according to community posts but still hasn't been fixed.
I was interested in the plot and I liked locations design and idea of gameplay with that device. Unfortunately, game turned out to me as kind of pixel-hunting. Some objects just did not appear where they should, or cut scene wont start. I tried a few times from the different hardware, but got the same rusult :/
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Empathy: Path of Whispers scores 7/100 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/291690/empathy-path-of-whispersReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.