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Event[0]
Skip · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 2.5h
- Value
- $8.00/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 650, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.99. That was September 2026. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 39 in the 10 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 34 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. On the same math Tacoma ($19.99, scores 49) and The Station ($14.99, scores 52) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Steam's global achievement data puts 31 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 395 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 162 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.5 hours. Doing everything runs 5, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
79% start to 31% 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 love love LOVE this game. The incredible detail put into a short and delightful experience is mesmerizing. It's full of such a bittersweet, lonely, nostalgic energy. The fact that such a game was put together before generative AI was even a Thing is a testament to the charm that real human ingenuity can add to an artistic experience. (Screw all AI but Kaizen <3)
Short and sweet, brilliant design. Full price might be a little too much given how short this game is, but I'd definitely recommend it on sale.
Event[0] is decent enough to satisfy my craving for a space adventure story. I don't feel particularly attached to Kaizen, but the AI technology is good enough for a game released in 2016, when modern attention-based NLP models did not exist yet. You'll be disappointed if you compare it to today's LLM or chatbot, but you may be impressed if you compare it to the text adventure games that were popular in the 70s and...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Event[0] scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/470260/event-0Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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