Missing Translation

Missing Translation

Worth it · Narrative · 2015

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
1.1h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
88% positive
Length
1.1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
1.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
88%
3,315 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2015

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 102 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Lost in a weird city in the middle of the desert and surrounded by strange creatures that keep staring at you. This is a game about exploring the unknown and solving puzzles... lots of them! Don't be fooled by the looks, this isn't a point & click adventure.
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
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement23% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
Length1.1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
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

Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. On the same math There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015 (free, scores 90) and The Supper (free, scores 89) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

52% start to 23% 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Missing Translation scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/395520/missing-translation
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Reviews 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 Sep 26.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperAlPixel Games
PublisherGamesBoosters
GenreNarrative
Released2015
Achievements6