Joana's Life

Joana's Life

Skip · Narrative · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $1.99.

Length
0.8h 1.5h to 100%
Value
$2.49/hr
Reviews
30% of 230 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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$2.49/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews30% of 230 reviews, scored as 38%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 22 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

In a peaceful part of the town, a series of deaths occur, seemingly random at first, but gruesome in their nature. One day, you find an object that doesn't belong in your house. An old, worn-out, stained mirror. You'll come to discover that the simple mirror isn't the only thing that is out of place.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher.. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 70 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 86 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Silver Chains ($24.99, scores 16) outscores it, and so does God's Basement ($14.99, scores 28). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

What players say

The developer didn't even bother to mention on the Steam Store page that his garbage includes trading cards.
CJ HUNTERNot recommendedafter 1.1hJun 2023Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Joana's Life scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/513740/joana-s-life
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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 30, 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

DeveloperOld Shack Studio
PublisherBack To Basics Gaming
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate