Winter Novel
Fair · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.9h 1h to 100%
- Value
- $5.54/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 608 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 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
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About the game
Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 41 MB of memory. Runs on Windows, Linux.
The value story
Across all 53 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Caribbean Crashers ($0.99, scores 29).
More about Winter Novel
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 0.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 59 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 0.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
7% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Labor exploitation depicted in ASCII art This game bored me from the beginning to the end, but the issue it addresses is something that should have more visibility. The art is nice, something that was used a long time ago with really old games, in my opinion the music was the most memorable thing here, but the general topic is something that might stay in my mind for a while because of how serious it actually is and...
2 more reviews
Booted it for snow, stayed for feels. Pixel flakes hit harder than my ex's last text. Cried twice, once over a girl, once over a dog that isn't even real. Finished in one sitting, forgot to eat, grew frostbeard. 10/10 would freeze heart again.
I will leave the cat here, So that everybody who passes by can pet it and give it a thumbs up and awards. ／＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つ
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Cite this score
Winter Novel 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/485350/winter-novelReviews 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.