OneShot
Worth it · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.49.
- Length
- 4.6h
- Value
- $2.17/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatible. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
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
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in April 2023. It has been discounted 69 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was this month, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $7.49. The record reaches that level 66 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Dropsy ($9.99, scores 59).
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 98 percent. An 18-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 16 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,677 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,103 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 1,718 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
61% start to 11% 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
76 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
Oneshot is a top-down adventure made with the RPGMaker engine although it doesn't look like a RPGMaker game because it uses mostly custom original assets. So not graphically impressive but interesting art design with some nifty special effects (such as fireflies in the Barrens). The gameplay is mostly exploring, talking and solving puzzles; there is no combat. The game was intriguing overall and sometimes...
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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OneShot scores 79/100 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/420530/oneshotThe 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 13, price as of Sep 24.
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