Replica
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $2.72/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Supports 1280 * 720 resolution, 236 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Replica is an interactive novel game played through a cellphone and social media. The insane experience of peeping into someone's private life through a cellphone will transform you into the state's greatest patriot.
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 $0.98. That was September 2019. 53 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kindergarten ($4.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats INMOST ($14.99, scores 62).
6 of the 444 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 81 percent of the 1,196 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.
1.1 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 21% rarestNo 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
What players say
A fascinating and thought provoking investigation game where you're coerced to work for a totalitarian state to implicate a high school boy as a terrorist. Some of the allegories are a bit on the nose, but I think the game has a good message that's relevant now more than ever. Definitely worth the money.
A short game for a small price! I found the basic concept very interesting, and the first playthrough-right up until the first ending I reached-kept me hooked. It wasn't until I saw the trophies that I realized there was more to it, and from there, figuring out what those icons at the top of the phone were, next to the battery icon… I have to admit that to reach the true ending (the only one that shows the credits)...
I adore phone games as they're aren't nearly enough of them. However this one is not very good. It starts out like the others, but then there are only a half dozen people and a half dozen photos. So there's not much to do. One of the photos is pw protected. There's nothing pointing you to the pw. It's just brute force random guessing. And once you randomly stumble across it, the reveal is completely underwhelming...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Replica scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/496890/replicaReviews 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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