A Date in the Park

A Date in the Park

Worth it · Narrative · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

PLAY IT.

Worth it, and it costs nothing.

Length
0.7h
Price
Free to play
Reviews
88% positive
Length
0.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
Free
price ÷ main-story length
Price
Free
Reviews
88%
2,059 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016

Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 184 MB of storage. Windows only.

A short and mysterious free point and click adventure game, inspired by the feeling of oddness in an everyday situation.
Description from the Steam store page.

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
ValueFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 87% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
Length0.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Lorelai ($8.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 ($3.99, scores 63).

The drop-off

68% start to 48% 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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
A Date in the Park scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/468530/a-date-in-the-park
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Reviews 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 Sep 26.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperCloak and Dagger Games
PublisherCloak and Dagger Games
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Achievements9