Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure
Fair · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 222 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.64 or less.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 784 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
Ephemerid is a tiny rock fairy tale about a tiny paper mayfly. Part rhythm game, part point-and-click adventure, and part rock opera.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
The value story
Across all 11 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 66 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 112 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE ($19.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats One Hand Clapping ($14.99, scores 49).
More about Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure
Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 74 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.8 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 7.4 times as long.
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
34% start to 2% 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
Well, this was a beautiful and mesmerizing journey. A musical adventure where you follow a pair of mayflies (or butterflies...something like that) as they try to keep each other alive and express the joy of their love for one another. Along the way, they find allies in beetles and bees, and fight off a gigantic boombox (yes, the stereo type) carrying spider. Visually, this game is stunning. The nature of the...
2 more reviews
I did have the chance to talk with creators of this game. They were pretty cool. It is a game I play when I when I am feeling down. The music is the top. Why am I writing this review now. Cause.
Nice as a brief but compelling experience - the story is solid despite a lack of dialogue, some of the visual design is really cool, the music is, unsurprisingly, great, and there's enough spins on the base mechanics to remain fresh throughout its roughly 45-minute runtime, though by the end the game does kind of default to repeating some ideas but EHH. But when you try to go for achievements or replay minigames or...
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Cite this score
Ephemerid: A Musical Adventure scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/335920/ephemerid-a-musical-adventureReviews 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.