Sally Face - Episode One

Sally Face - Episode One

BANGER · Narrative · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

A BANGER at $2.99.

Reviews
97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
97%
29,552 reviews, as of Sep 14
Players
1.5M
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2016
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX11 or higher capable GPUs, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

An unsettling adventure following a boy with a prosthetic face. After a string of mysterious murders, Sal and his three friends discover something truly sinister casting shadows over their small town.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Value, est. length~$0.60/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews97% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Engagement27% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
Refunds18 of 800 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $0.98. That was August 2026. 27 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 18 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Rusty Lake Paradise ($3.99, scores 91) beats it on value, while it beats Children of Silentown ($19.99, scores 52).

Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 2,776 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

81% start to 27% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Sally Face - Episode One scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 5 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/541570/sally-face-episode-one
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperPortable Moose
PublisherPortable Moose
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Achievements35