The Low Road
Skip · Narrative · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 3.1h 5h to 100%
- Value
- $4.84/hr
- Reviews
- 73% of 226 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 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
Lie, blackmail, and steal your way down The Low Road. Rookie agent Noomi Kovacs must navigate her way through the world of corporate espionage in this dark spy comedy set in the 1970s.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 Compatible Video Card, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 47 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 68 percent. The Darkside Detective ($14.99, scores 67) outscores it, and so does Adventure Escape Mysteries (free, scores 63). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
The drop-off
32% start to 5% 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
SUPER MIXED review here. The one thing this game does well is its music, and art design of the characters, style and environments. The puzzles and point and click riddles you solve are either incredibly mundane, slow and simple. OR unclear. There were some minigame puzzles that were fun to mess around with but nothing that was inherently challenging. This game has SUCH potential. It has the foundation to be a great...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Glitchy, Chapter 5 just won't load, short chapters with little to offer, no engaging story to speak of, no intrigue, fails to be either funny or dramatic.
Game managed to surprise me. While it has some issues, slowly moving characters, no options for sound and couple of puzzles being unnecessarily convoluted and some events taking a bit longer than necessary in the end it kept me going. Game benefits a lot being quite short and what makes this worth playing is that it's actually more satire rather than dark comedy. Good satire is very difficult to write and there's...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Low Road scores 24/100 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/603700/the-low-roadReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.