Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
Skip · Action · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 71% of 600
- Genre rank
- Top 51% Action
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.2h
- To 100%
- 1.3h 6.5x the story
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Better reviewed
- 36% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 64 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Streamer Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 37) beats it on value, while it beats Ratty Catty ($14.99, scores 11).
More about Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
The main story runs 0.2 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 6.5 times as long.
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What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Sometimes is good little game. The gameplay is pretty basic; you move with WASD and suicide with spacebar. Why suicide, you ask? The map is always dark, you being the only light source. So, when you suicide, your corpse/soul becomes another light source, making you able to see more of it. There are 5 game modes; Classic: Constantly suicide to comprehend obstacles and reach the checkpoint. Endless: Suicide to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I will try to express how i felt in the game in long story short. The games rating is i have to say 6/10 and i RECCOMEND the game on any time becouse you can play the game for days or weeks or months or even years if you dont find it booring after a month. Pros: +Something new +Has some levels in casual +You can level up by xp +Has multiple game modes. Cons: -Doesnt have alot of features -same nothing new doesnt...
It's not clear why there is so much darkness; in some places you can't see anything at all
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About the game
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, the title says it all! You get thrown into a dark room, with no light to be found anywhere! Are you willing to end your life to light the way for the next generation to proceed further? Play it today and find out!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, Integrated Graphics, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/351470/sometimes-success-requires-sacrificeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.