The First Tree
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 75% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Geforce GTX 750 / Radeon R7 260X with 1GB Memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox’s journey towards The First Tree.
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
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in March 2021. 78 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 85 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, AER Memories of Old ($14.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Dear Esther: Landmark Edition ($9.99, scores 28).
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 2,075 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.8 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 2.0 times as long.
The drop-off
67% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The First Tree scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/555150/the-first-treeReviews 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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