1979 Revolution: Black Friday
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $4.76/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.19, set in September 2017. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. On the same math Life is Strange: Before the Storm ($16.99, scores 57) and Not For Broadcast ($24.99, scores 67) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 232 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 243 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 24 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.1 hours. Doing everything runs 6, 2.9 times as long.
The drop-off
85% start to 41% 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
What players say
"There's no shame in being invested in your people's future" Clearly inspired by Telltale-style games, it feels familiar but the gameplay itself can be clunky, with stiff controls and weird QTEs. Where the game fully shines is in its storytelling, by tackling a subject rarely explored in the West, the game reaches its full potential when it explores these events and their consequences, offering a glimpse into...
This is a very qualified thumbs up. There's a lot about 1979 Revolution: Black Friday that is frustrating, in particular its ending (where they planning, or hoping, to continue this story?). The choices are Telltale-style, but they mostly fall flat, changing little about the story and (more importantly) how you feel about the story and characters. And the failable quicktime events should have been left out: they're...
It's a bit short and bare boned, but in a couple of quick hours it gives a very vivid look into the tensions and complexities and fallout of the 1979 revolution. Lots of codex entries, too.
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Cite this score
1979 Revolution: Black Friday scores 42/100 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/388320/1979-revolution-black-fridayReviews 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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