Wait! Life is beautiful!
Skip · Narrative · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 36, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 2h 5.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 259 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1194 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
W!LiB! is an interactive psychological thriller about suicide, based on personal experience. This is a story about a void in the soul, about search and loss of the life purpose in trying to save oneself and others. This is a life that can be lived your own way. For any life is beautiful... isn’t it?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 11 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 171 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 44 percent on value. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Papers, Please ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Beholder 3 ($17.99, scores 12).
More about Wait! Life is beautiful!
4 of the 229 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2020 to August 2026.
Finishing takes 2 hours; clearing it takes 6, which is 3.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
89% start to 7% 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
I'm interested in rather contents than visual in this game. At least I think that I've bought good game.
2 more reviews
I overall liked the characters stories, choices and possible outcomes, but in the technical part there were some glitches and shortcomings. Sometimes the characters appearance was repeated in the same gameplay so it wasn't as authentic. The game also stopped working multiple times while I was in the middle of the story and I had to quit, what led to repeating the same part which was kind of an annoying thing to do.
I'm actually enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would. There's some funny stuff slipped in that's pretty great. The game has a good balance of humor and the darkness of the story. Story's rather good, I'm currently working on getting all the endings, has a lot of replay value. Really good point and click story where your choices truly make a difference with a good story, a sense of humor, and a focus on the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Wait! Life is beautiful! scores 36/100 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/680830/wait-life-is-beautifulReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.