Control, I'm Not Coming Back
Worth it · Narrative · 2026
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 7,295
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Narrative
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.6h
- To 100%
- 0.8h 1.3x the story
- Achievements
- 5
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Recent reviews
- 98% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 36% rarestThis 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
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre.
Its player count is falling. 16 were online at the highest of our weekly checks over 35 days, 8 at the last one, on Nov 4, 21:47 UTC.
More about Control, I'm Not Coming Back
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
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
- Player count is unknown. We assumed a small player base, about 500 owners.
About the game
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 560, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Control, I'm Not Coming Back scores 81/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Player count is unknown, so the score assumes a small player base; Steam shows 7,295 reviews, so it has at least that many owners. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4515660/control-i-m-not-coming-backReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.