Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition
Fair · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $4.76/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 5500 or equivalent, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Wealthy, handsome, and... dead? Samuel strikes a deal with Death for one last shot at life, but only if he can survive a day doing everything manually. Blink, breathe, walk, and work - Guide Sam in this darkly humorous and brutally difficult adventure!
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
August 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 78 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 18 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Four Last Things ($9.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats The Cave ($14.99, scores 45).
This site sampled 435 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 472 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
2.1 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
60% start to <1% 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
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 06:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Such a highly entertaining and hilariously frustrating game. Having to manually control everything-from blinking and breathing to walking-is a brilliant concept that keeps you laughing the entire time. The narrator's commentary is gold and thoroughly immerses you in its comedy. In my opinion, the length is ideal; if it were any longer, the controls might have gotten tedious, but they left it at the sweet spot. A...
This game is annoying on purpose. The whole point is that you must manually walk, breathe, and blink, failing repeatedly while Death doing a bad Aaron Paul impression loops the same background dialogue about kick flips and the narrator sighs at you in disappointment.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Manual Samuel - Last Tuesday Edition scores 52/100 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/504130/manual-samuel-last-tuesday-editionReviews 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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