GRIS
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $7.87.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $4.28/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce GT 430 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 5570 (1024 MB), 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in October 2024. It has been discounted 67 times in the 8 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $7.87, a level the record has reached 50 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Child of Light ($4.49, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($7.99, scores 44).
84 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 6,903 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
At 3.5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
89% start to 38% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
67 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
One of my absolute favorite games of all time. The art, the music, and the emotional story with not a single word being spoken. Everything about this game is incredible. P.S. Don't forget that you can take screenshots by pressing the F12 key. You're gonna press that key a lot.
🇬🇧 English first | 🇺🇦 Українська нижче 🇺🇦 ⬇️ I really enjoyed this game, even though I'm not a big fan of platformers. Luckily for me, the platforming isn't too difficult, because I really wanted to see the game through to the end. The watercolor art style was one of the things that caught my attention, as with many other games. It's unusual and beautifully integrated into the gameplay and level design. Visually...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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GRIS scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/683320/grisThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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