The Moon Sliver
Skip · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $1.99.
- Length
- 0.7h
- Value
- $2.84/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: AMD 6870 or equivalent. Windows only.
You are on a bleak, cold, windy island. And you seem to be alone... but fires and candles still burn. As you explore, a story of guilt, loneliness, and faith begins to take shape. And it becomes obvious that something is hunting you...
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was June 2016. It has been discounted 94 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Homesick ($14.99, scores 32).
1 of the 359 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 859 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 86 percent of everything written about it.
What players say
So, this isn't too much of an interesting game, outside of just explaining the end of a civilization by exploring and reading parts of the world that explain certain things left and right. The main objective of the game (that goes unsaid) is trying to find out who you're playing as, you go walking from structure to structure, reading text that explains certain parts of the story and getting more information as you...
Gameplay is not a relevant aspect to this game, it's more like a short horror book turned interactive experience. It's fun to piece together whatever is going on. Even in such a bleak scenario humans and their emotions can turn things worst. But there's something more than that in play, and this game will leave plenty of space for interpretation. It does manage to feel hostile and overwhelming (in the good way one...
I liked the ambience, sounds, mood but not the narration. Huge random text blocks just killed the mood. And I understand the idea between the narration to make player to put all the pieces together, but it was somehow messy when you do not know what to do next. There is also no save option. I like walk sims, just not this one.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Moon Sliver scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/329830/the-moon-sliverThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 22, price as of Sep 24.
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