The Red Strings Club
Fair · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$5.42BANGER
- Length
- 4h
- Value
- $3.75/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 7600GS (256 MB) or Radeon HD 2600 PRO (256 MB), 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2024. 65 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $5.42, a level the record has reached 41 times.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Primordia ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Gods Will Be Watching ($9.99, scores 26).
80 from critics against 93 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 41 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; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,017 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 580 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
41% start to 41% 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
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 08:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
TL;DR 5.5/10 Good writing, bad game. For sci-fi interactive fiction aficionados. It's as if Richard Linklater dabbled in cyberpunk. Oh wait, he did! So yeah, it's just like A Scanner Darkly, with all the drug-tinged philosophical (but emotional) dialogue and intrigue-free mystery plot. That movie's better than this, but this isn't bad either. At least, not in the basket where they put all their eggs: the writing and...
I am almost never one to leave negative reviews, but I feel like one is warranted in this case. However, as there is a lot to love about this game, I'll go over those before digging into my cons. First, the game looks great. The pixel art is fantastic, the character design is awesome, and everyone looks unique and has their own unique speech styles, which makes the world feel very alive. You grow to become quite...
Love this game with the loose thread being tied up from the start. I wish the mini game mechanics weren't so one-and-done, but it is a short game so the only answer to that is to replay it and explore the different ways your choices affect the outcomes. My only gripes with the game are 1) the lack of self saves and needing to rely on autosave (may have been intentional); I made a plot-altering decision during my...
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Cite this score
The Red Strings Club scores 67/100 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/589780/the-red-strings-clubReviews 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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