Oracle
Skip · Strategy · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 0.5h 1.5h to 100%
- Value
- $9.98/hr
- Reviews
- 53% of 264 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 2 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
About the game
ORACLE is a single player, open world experience with dozens of locations to explore, great soundtrack and an awesome story ready to be unraveled.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVidia GTX 660 or Radeon 7970, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
35 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 51 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. On the same math ABZU ($19.99, scores 58) and The Backrooms Game FREE Edition (free, scores 53) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Oracle
Inside the two-hour refund window, 41 percent of the 151 reviews written there were positive, against 53 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
0.5 hours to finish it, 2 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
7% start to 4% rarestNo 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
Nice little walking sim. I'm not sure why all the negative reviews, especially those complaining about the pace being too slow. It's an open world walking simulator, it's supposed to be. Besides, most people should be able to complete the game in about an hour or two. Never mind my Steam time because I'm always pausing games to go do stuff, then I come back to continue, esp. when there's no saves, as with this game...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
Oracle is a somewhat tedious open-world walking sim that feels like it was thrown together using Unity assets with marginal competence. The graphics are full of glitches, with textures constantly popping into existence right in front of you. The narration is the biggest head-scratcher, sounding like it was written (or translated) by a non-English speaker and then read by another non-English speaker who doesn't...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Oracle 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/576310/oracleReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.