Yesterday Origins
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.1h 11.4h to 100%
- Value
- $1.85/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 730 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
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
John Yesterday becomes immortal following an occult ritual. However, not everything goes to plan. He and his girlfriend Pauline must embark on an investigation to try to reproduce the immortality ritual. But his former acquaintances have other plans for him...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
85 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 87 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 20 percent on value. It is pricier than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Blacksad: Under the Skin ($19.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Twelve Minutes ($7.49, scores 33).
More about Yesterday Origins
The press gave it 74; the people who bought it give it 83 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 281 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
49% start to 28% 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
This is another game where it's over designed and the gameplay and actual user experience is terrible. They've let designers run amock with this one. Total waste of money. I wouldn't take it and a dollar
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I played the original Yesterday adventure, The Next Big Thing and all Runaway titles. I enjoyed those games. But this one I did not. It is just bad. Point that stood out for me in a negative way: - gameplay is horrendously bad (controller or mouse, makes no difference) - story and characters were weird, I could not relate - bugs and red debug error messages appearing all the time - strange puzzles, but overall too...
A cursed immortality, or a chronicle of obsession. A story-driven point-and-click adventure with sparse interaction and a strong focus on dialogue.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Yesterday Origins scores 51/100 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/465280/yesterday-originsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.