Without a Dawn
Worth it · Short indie · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.95, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since May 2025.
- Length
- 0.8h 1.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.69/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 909 positive
Full price
Today
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Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales.
- 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
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB card capable of shader 3.0, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
October 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.95. 13 discounts in the 17 months on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bright Lights of Svetlov ($4.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats KARMA: The Dark World ($24.99, scores 62).
More about Without a Dawn
This site sampled 343 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 591 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 93 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
77% start to 21% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Without a Dawn scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3145620/without-a-dawnReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.