NO THING

NO THING

Fair · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4h 6.2h to 100%
Value
$1.00/hr
Reviews
86% of 318 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 70 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

About the game

The year is 1994 and it is the future. NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in totalitarian regime of future. Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with important message to the Queen of Ice.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

It has been discounted 53 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Vangers ($6.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats INK ($4.99, scores 58).

The drop-off

30% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

And you run past Benjamin Franklin's head and gray identical skyscrapers, through crowds of cardboard people, through impossible mazes, trying not to fall, not to stumble, not to die. The road is merciless. It conceals turns to ambush you. It becomes a sequence of jumps where you can't just run. You have to fly and twist mid-air. Eventually you stop listening to the voice. Shut down your thoughts. Pure autopilot...
Gosha BerlinskyRecommendedafter 9.1hOct 2025Read on Steam
1 more review
The image of my subconscious. Drugs when they hit all their phases. Totalitarianism regime of happiness but I'm just a simple ordinary office clerk. I'm not important. But somehow they're proud of me. I was just 01 of 1994. Now I'm going to meet the queen. I think she got the message; she always knew. She knows I'm not just one. They're not on my side, but they are in me. There are three of us. Only one said...
DepressãoProfundaRecommendedafter 13hJul 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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NO THING scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/444800/no-thing
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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 Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperEvil Indie Games
PublisherEvil Indie Games
GenreAction
Released2016
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12