The Town of Light
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $18.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $5.93/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, AMD Radeon HD 6770 with at least 1 GB VRAM, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
12 March 1938, Renée, 16, was ripped out of her world, her only fault was that of not knowing her place in the world.
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
The value story
October 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $2.84. It has been discounted 108 times in the 11 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 4 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Cat Lady ($8.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Martha Is Dead ($29.99, scores 35).
64 from critics against 79 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 537 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 319 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
47% start to 25% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
I have never been this terrified by a game without a single jump scare :/ You can immediately tell when a game is made with love. After beating it, you just sit there for a long time, thinking about the massive amount of work that devs put into it. The story. The game is set back in the 2016, showing the events of 1930s. Specifically, you walk through a ruined asylum, piecing together memories from that era. And the...
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Cite this score
The Town of Light scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/433100/the-town-of-lightReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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