Stories: The Path of Destinies
Fair · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $2.88/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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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.
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.
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The value story
December 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 52 in the 10 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Apotheon ($14.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Dreamfall Chapters ($24.99, scores 62).
74 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 349 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 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.
The drop-off
35% start to 6% 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
3 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
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...
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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Stories: The Path of Destinies scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/439190/stories-the-path-of-destiniesThe 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 12, price as of Sep 24.
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