Finding Paradise
BANGER · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.1h
- Value
- $1.96/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Two doctors traverse backwards through a dying man's memories to fulfill his last wish. This is To the Moon's standalone sequel, but can also be played first.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in June 2023. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 9 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Outcore: Desktop Adventure (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Impostor Factory ($9.99, scores 84).
$11.98 is where it would stop being a BANGER. Today it is $9.99.
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 98 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 543 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 90 percent of the 510 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Players
16 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I normally have to force myself to play games like this as the lack of actual gameplay is what scares me away. But with movies being so terrible nowadays, playing narrative-driven experiences like this on the rare occasion is pretty much a given for me. A sequel to To the Moon and A Bird Story, Kan Gao's storytelling had me hooked from the beginning. Expect lots of dialogue, lots of clicking on objects to proceed to...
Such a sad and sweet story but because of the first game I was waiting for a twist and guessed it for this one within 2 minutes, so it lost the impact a bit. Still a really interesting ending overall, tying into the next iteration.
I distinctly remember shedding a tear live on stream at the ending to this game, what a wreck I was. 100% reccommend.
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.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Finding Paradise scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/337340/finding-paradiseThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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