OneShot
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.30/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 66,001
- Critics
- 80 players 18 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameAlready a BANGER on sale. Pick a lower price.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.6h
- To 100%
- 8.7h 1.9x the story
- Achievements
- 11
Price and sales
- Sales
- 71 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 April 2023
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 70 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 30% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
61% start to 11% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in April 2023. It has been discounted 71 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 70 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 ($0.99, scores 86).
The math says it holds its tier up to $7.49.
More about OneShot
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, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,628 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,071 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 1,731 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Spoiler warning: I talk a bit about the general tone of later parts of the game, including the Tower and Solstice. I don't really spoil what actually happens, but if you already think you want to play OneShot I would genuinely recommend just stopping here and going in knowing as little as possible. I went into OneShot almost completely blind. Pretty much all I knew was Niko, the lightbulb, that you supposedly only...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game was the best experience of my life, the story and mechanics are extremely well thought and I'll miss Niko ;(
Ehh, it's okay. The writing and Niko are likable, but the actual gameplay is painful enough it makes the story hard to enjoy. It's a lot of walking around trying to find a random item and smashing it together with other random items until something combines. I ended up following a walkthrough for some parts to push through and finish it faster. The puzzles are more tedious than interesting, I think about half of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatible. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
OneShot scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/420530/oneshotReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.