One Dog Story
Skip · Shooter · 2017
The verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$11.99Skip
On its price record
$5.98Fair
- Length
- 4.8h
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 513 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.98 or less.
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
About the game
One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 320M+, 1.7 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
65 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 77 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 50 percent of the games it competes with. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Celeste ($4.99, scores 97) and Axiom Verge ($19.99, scores 51) both outscore it.
The drop-off
32% start to 8% 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
To not bury the lede, I'll start with why I do not recommend this game: [*]There are bugs which may occur which keep you from completing the game. [*]There are bugs which will keep you from getting all achievements. [*]The devs have been silent for over a year (check the discussion forum). With that out of the way, this game does otherwise have some redeeming qualities. The gameplay is pretty fun: the story is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Sorry but there's a game wrecking error that makes the game unbeatable. You cannot get thru a laser and I checked at least 10 times but I bet they put a rusty door instead of the lever in the last section...
You can ignore the reviews that claim this is a scam game or something, it isn't. It's a platformer/shooter that seems inspired by "Cave Story" but doesn't quite have the charm to hold all the pieces together in the same way. It's good though, if you can get past some glitches that can get you softlocked. The game was patched a few years back so this is essentially the totally playable final version. There are some...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
One Dog Story scores 43/100 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/588110/one-dog-storyReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.