Cibele

Cibele

Skip · Short indie · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $8.99.

Length
1.1h 1.2h to 100%
Value
$8.17/hr
Reviews
51% of 1,274 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 167 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Holding it back
Value$8.17/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews51% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 52% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 28 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

About the game

Cibele is a game about love, sex, and the internet. You play as a 19 year old girl who has become close with a young man she met in an online game. Her relationship with him heats up, becoming more and more intimate with each phone call and private chat.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 14 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 26 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 24 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. On the same math The Suicide of Rachel Foster ($1.79, scores 26) and Gone Home ($14.99, scores 39) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Cibele

The press liked it more than its buyers did, 71 against 51 percent.

Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 305 reviews written there were positive, against 51 percent overall, and those are 92 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Cibele, developed and published by Star Maid Games, is a deeply personal and unconventional interactive experience that challenges the usual expectations of what a video game should be. Rather than focusing on gameplay systems or player-driven outcomes, it centers almost entirely on storytelling, drawing from real-life experiences to explore themes of identity, intimacy, and the emotional complexities of online...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hApr 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
A special game that captures the unique feeling of an online relationship that never quite becomes what you think it should be <3
tinysammRecommendedafter 2.1hMar 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Cibele scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/408120/cibele
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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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-20
Critics71
Players51
Critic darling, cooler with players. Read recent reviews before buying.
Metacritic critics · 1,274 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperStar Maid Games
PublisherN/A
GenreShort indie
Released2015
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate