Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Worth it · Action · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.76.
- Length
- 5.5h
- Value
- $2.73/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
July 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 103 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $6.76. The record reaches that level 87 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tacoma ($2.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Kena: Bridge of Spirits ($39.99, scores 59).
Critics scored it 74. Players sit 21 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 400 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 621 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
79% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
8 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This game was a breath of fresh air for me. I've played it through completely at least three times over the last several years since I purchased it. No regrets; I highly recommend it!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Epistory - Typing Chronicles scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/398850/epistory-typing-chroniclesThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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