HEADLINER
Skip · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$4.99Skip
On its price record
$2.80Fair
- Length
- 0.8h
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 35% ($3.24)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 65% ($1.74)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 Compatible card, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Short, thought-provoking adventure where you are a News Editor and decide what stories get published, set in a fictional city where most people are genetically modified. Multiple unique endings let you share your story and see what the Headliner before you did.
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
The value story
June 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $1.49. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 60 in the 9 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Beholder 2 ($17.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats 1979 Revolution: Black Friday ($9.99, scores 42).
Steam's global achievement data puts 80 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 375 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, 70 percent of the 590 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 66 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.8 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 4.1 times as long.
The drop-off
91% start to 80% 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
What players say
honestly i dont know what people are on about, my run of headliner was absolutely fine. sometimes decisions had strange impacts, but i think that was because certain choices had locked events, and i kept playing the sides so it made everyone mad...or nobody mad. it is a short game yes. it doesnt have a whole lot of replayability, no. but it has a much more obvious choice -> impact line than many others of the genre...
TLDR: Biased, hateful, not recommended even on discount. SPOILERS This game feels like it's very biased, while trying to tell you that you are the one with the choice. If you side with minorities or agree that immigrants should not be shunned, the entire world falls apart, your family hates you, and you die after getting someone else killed. I won't be playing through a second time to find out what the other side of...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
HEADLINER scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/680980/headlinerReviews 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 2.
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