Uncanny Tales: Cold Road

Uncanny Tales: Cold Road

Skip · Narrative · 2025

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 34, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
0.4h
Value
$7.48/hr
Reviews
75% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.4h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$7.48
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
75%
1,444 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
10K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2025

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 260X (2GB VRAM), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Uncanny Tales is an episodic horror series where the real terror comes not from monsters or the supernatural, but from people. Each episode is a new unsettling story inspired by real fears and eerie situations from everyday life.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Engagement44% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$7.48/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews75% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.4 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 152 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.59, set in April 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 11 in the 18 months tracked, about 9 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 47 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, [Chilla's Art] Night Delivery | 例外配達 ($2.99, scores 48) beats it on value, while it beats God's Basement ($14.99, scores 28).

Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 97 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

82% start to 44% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 05:50 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Uncanny Tales: Cold Road scores 34/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3534240/uncanny-tales-cold-road
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Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVYASTUDIO
PublisherVYASTUDIO
GenreNarrative
Released2025
Achievements6