Long Gone Days

Long Gone Days

Fair · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
10h 14.5h to 100%
Value
$2.50/hr
Reviews
88% of 560 positive
It needs 59% off ($10.21) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.21 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each 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

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

Holding it back
Value$2.50/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews88% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 86% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 323 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

A modern-day JRPG that imagines a world of war. Overcome language barriers, forge unlikely friendships, and find hope amidst conflict.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 1GB memory recommended, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

65 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 25 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 14 percent on value. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LISA: The Painful ($19.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Beast Saga ($20.99, scores 38).

More about Long Gone Days

Of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

The drop-off

40% start to 2% 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

What players say

Unfortunately a pretty toothless and ineffective story wrapped in repetitive, barebones gameplay. Pretty art, I guess?
almanacTeleologist / MinxNot recommendedafter 6.5hMay 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is a total rugpull. If you thought you were going to play an exciting RPG about soldiers on the modern battlefield, guess again… it's basically an angry leftist simulator with all the basic talking points you see in every "anti war" story. In short: Military bad War bad Authority bad Hierarchy bad Questioning authority good Rebellion ALWAYS good Normal family bad Found family good Imagine playing Call of...
primeentertainerNot recommendedafter 2.5hApr 2026Read on Steam
Long Gone Days wonderful game with beautiful art and a captivating story. To be honest, I don't think the story is going to surprise anyone, but it's a story excellently told and thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless. We follow Rourke, a young man bred from birth to be a sniper for a secret military group. Rourke learns about the reality of the outside world and the truth of his upbringing, and goes on a journey to...
VisionRecommendedafter 11hJun 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Long Gone Days scores 55/100 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/510540/long-gone-days
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperThis I Dreamt
PublisherSerenity Forge
GenreRPG
Released2023
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements44