A Story Beside
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$14.99Fair
On its price record
$4.95BANGER
- Length
- 6h 9.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 311 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.95 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $7.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Step into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming friendships, and bittersweet choices — proving along the way that you don't have to slay dragons to be the hero of your own story.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 553 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
22 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 12 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $4.95, a level the record has reached once.
On value it sits in the top 8 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats The Red Lantern ($2.49, scores 51).
The drop-off
49% 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
Absolutely wonderful and beautiful game. 100% recommend this story if you are in to collecting and clicking on every small item in games. The story does not take long to complete (about 6hrs total). Great voice over, great storylines, great game play. Loved and almost made me cry!
2 more reviews
Writing this review fresh off of the feels coaster this game took me on. Wow. I...just...wow. 'A Story Beside' was like a book I couldn't put down. Read the whole thing in one night. The player is presented with so many choices. I still feel like there's so much I haven't seen and done. And yet it feels oddly satisfying. Like an authentic life lived. Choices that could have been made, things I could have changed...
An extremely moving story about how a life lived has value and how choices matter, even when they don't.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A Story Beside scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/634410/a-story-besideReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.