Pub Encounter
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$17.99Skip
On its price record
$11.02Fair
- Length
- 2.5h 15h to 100%
- Value
- $7.20/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 316 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.02 or less.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
"Pub Encounter" is a romance game where you can fall in love with one of several middle-aged men.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
72 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 73 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42) and Shelter 2 ($24.99, scores 42).
More about Pub Encounter
Steam's global achievement data puts 30 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.
The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 15, 6.0 times as long.
The drop-off
85% start to 30% 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 always compare these games to the "fast food" of visual novels/otomes/books. Some days you don't want that fine dining meal. You just want a cheeseburger meal for $4.99 (inflation and currency may vary) on the daily deal menu at your cookie-cutter corporation across the street. I previously got this on Switch, so I mostly just re-read the guys I liked and 100% the rest of the game. This game works well on my PC...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Had this game for awhile and I'm getting back into it again. I <3 cute old men so this makes me happy. We need more otome games for old man f*ckers!!!
☆ The mc: I HATED her so much, I found her to be intolerable.. She cries alot of obsesses over the LI so quickly. ☆ The Love interests .. Oh boy Yorihisa Hodo He was the first LI i went for. Yorihisa ends up being the writer that the MC is obsessed with. The MC looks like his late wife so he comes up with a game between him & the MC to see who will fall in love first. If Yorihisa falls first, he'll write a second...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pub Encounter scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/447190/pub-encounterReviews 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.