A Fisherman's Tale
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$9.99Fair
On its price record
$3.41BANGER
- Length
- 1.5h
- Value
- $6.66/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
Bend and twist reality in A Fisherman's Tale, the mind-bending VR puzzle adventure game in which being turned upside down and inside out is not merely a play on words.
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 $1.99, set in September 2026. It has been discounted 62 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 74 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. It becomes a BANGER at $3.41, a level the record has reached 15 times.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Landlord of the Woods ($0.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Hyperbolica ($12.99, scores 49).
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 94 percent. A 16-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 1 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. None of the 353 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 778 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 72 percent of everything written about it.
1.5 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
The drop-off
88% start to 1% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 1.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's a cool little game, but extremely short, took me about an hour to complete. Still, it does utilize VR quite well with its "perspective" puzzles. Narration is good, visuals are good. Well worth it though, especially on a sale. One nitpick - no smooth locomotion, teleports only.
Cute little puzzle game in VR that has lovely voiceacting and many cool mechanics. Somewhat thinking outside the box. Very fun!
A Fisherman's Tale is a really interesting puzzle game. This is what VR is for. The narration is great, the music is also great, and although some of the puzzles were a little tricky I found it very enjoyable. The only drawback about this game is that it's very short. You can finish it in 2 hours. There are some reasons to go back into levels to look for collectables but that's about it. With a $15 price tag that...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
A Fisherman's Tale scores 66/100 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/559330/a-fisherman-s-taleReviews 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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