Stories: The Path of Destinies

Stories: The Path of Destinies

Fair · RPG · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 4 of 8 sales

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hour▼
$2.88/hr
Reviews▼
88% of 6,610
Critics
74 players 14 higher
Genre rank
Top 8% RPG

Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews

Why
It needs 23% off ($11.60) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.60 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
5.2h
To 100%
20.1h 3.9x the story
Achievements
37

Price and sales

Sales
53 on record
Typical cut
50% off
Steam low
$1.49 December 2017
Sale every
56d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.34 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
1 now
Cheaper than
22% of its genre
Better reviewed
92% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

35% start to 6% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This 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

Across all 53 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 8 percent. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Apotheon ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Omensight: Definitive Edition ($19.99, scores 58).

More about Stories: The Path of Destinies

74 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 350 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 213 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 5.2 hours. Doing everything runs 20, 3.9 times as long.

At 5.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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

Raising the score
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.88/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds0 of 350 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

What players say

For an old game it's really nice you know. The way the game handle the story is really fun and choices you made really tell what kind of person you are. The story can be hard to understand at first but it will come together. The combat is really fun once you get used to it. It's not the usual hack and slash game where you can spam the attack buttoon, this one you have to strategize your next move for every action...
SinSinRecommendedafter 8.2hAug 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Simple, yet charming adventure based on concept of "What if?". There's an occasional audio-bug interruptig music and/or dialog, but other than that the game delivers neatly 24 different out comes based on your choices troughout the story. The catch, however, is to find out the only good ending, that won't toss you to the beginning of a campaign.
MölvääniRecommendedafter 8.0hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

About the game

Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 GTX, GT640, GT730, Radeon HD 5850, HD Graphics 530, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Stories: The Path of Destinies scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/439190/stories-the-path-of-destinies
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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 Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+14
Critics74
Players88
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 6,610 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSpearhead Games
PublisherSpearhead Games
GenreRPG
Released2016
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements37