Fran Bow
Worth it · Narrative · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4970% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.97/hr
- ReviewsS
- 97% of 23,409
- Critics
- 70 players 27 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Narrative
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.6h
- To 100%
- 8.8h 1.2x the story
- Finish
- 42% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 18
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 October 2018
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 277 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 17% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to 42% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 66 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 8 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $13.27. The record reaches that level 66 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 2 percent. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Bad Dream: Coma ($2.24, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59).
More about Fran Bow
The press gave it 70; the people who bought it give it 97 percent. A 27-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 42 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 656 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,071 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 840 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $4.49 (70% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
From the very moment I started it, there was this constant feeling of unease that never really disappeared. It's atmosphere and distinctive art style give it a personality that is difficult to compare with anything else, and the world is filled with so many bizarre yet memorable characters that I kept wondering what I would encounter next. Fran Bow is simply one of a kind.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this was one of the best games I've played in my life and it will always have a special place in my heart. I've had an amazing and pleasant experience playing through the entire game and I want to thank everyone who has made this game come to life.
I don't get the hype around Fran Bow. This game was just okay. The story dragged a bit too long for my liking. Some of the puzzles were difficult and just did not make sense. Not a fan of the point-and-click either.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Fran Bow is a creepy adventure game that tells the story of Fran, a young girl struggling with a mental disorder and an unfair destiny.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Fran Bow scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/362680/fran-bowReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.