To Be or Not To Be
Worth it · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2.2h 6.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.27/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 302 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
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
Guide Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet Sr. to hundreds of hilarious deaths in Ryan North's chooseable-path edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 79 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Henry Stickmin Collection ($5.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Lil' Guardsman ($19.99, scores 69).
More about To Be or Not To Be
Finishing takes 2.2 hours; clearing it takes 7, which is 3.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
72% start to 7% 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
It is literally a choose-your-own-adventure book with narration. No animation or real gameplay, and it looks like it was a mobile game at one point. I would totally play this on a mobile. It is short and worth some laughs and giggles, but as a PC game, it just is not enough
2 more reviews
Shakespeare parody, and I love it! I'm not a huge fan of visual novels, though I've played a few. However, I enjoyed this one very much. Some bits were hilarious. Who knew murder and death could be so funny? This is a choose-your-own-adventure (or as the author puts it, the book you want to write, as YOU are the author). You play 3 different characters throughout the game, and there are many different options for...
Humor is hit and miss, but the creativity is commendable. I was planning to unlock all the artworks 'til I saw how many there is.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
To Be or Not To Be scores 70/100 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/324710/to-be-or-not-to-beReviews 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.