The Way of Life Free Edition
Skip · Short indie · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 74% of 6,121
- Genre rank
- Top 30% Short indie
Holding it back: Reviews
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.4h
- To 100%
- 0.6h 1.5x the story
Players and genre
- Online
- 2 now
- Better reviewed
- 52% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Its score sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Off-Peak (free, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Only If (free, scores 10).
It is still busy. 2 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 7, 20:46 UTC, across 42 days of weekly checks.
More about The Way of Life Free Edition
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 0.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
The Way of Life makes the player relive the same life's experiences from the point of view of three characters of different ages: an adult, an old man and a child.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT / AMD Radeon HD 4650 or greater, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Way of Life Free Edition scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/310370/the-way-of-life-free-editionReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.