Sorry, James

Sorry, James

Fair · Strategy · 2017

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.5h 5h to 100%
Value
$2.00/hr
Reviews
79% of 858 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 4 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

Holding it back
Value$2.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 252 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

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Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader model 3.0, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

83 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 4 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 75 percent of its genre. On the same math Death and Taxes ($1.68, scores 73) and Uplink ($11.99, scores 76) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about Sorry, James

Of the 252 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 151 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

53% start to 10% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Gotta write about this one - not a masterpiece or anything, but the game deserves a playthrough if you like both puzzles and piecing story together. - Puzzles are original as far as I can tell. "Inspired by Sudoku and Minesweeper" is a bit misleading; it's closest to nonograms and I see no relation to sudoku. - As a puzzle game, it lacks QoL features such as undo and marking/drawing - Most puzzles have multiple...
RashRecommendedafter 7.7h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Sorry, James scores 53/100 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/659190/sorry-james
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKonstructors
PublisherHook Games
GenreStrategy
Released2017
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements10