Know by heart
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5h 8.2h to 100%
- Value
- $4.00/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 859 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.00 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in 6 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
Childhood friends reunite after spending a long time apart, revisiting old memories and rekindling their friendship. However, something beyond their control will ruin this reunion.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce gtx 560, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 15 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Painscreek Killings ($19.99, scores 66) and Syberia: The World Before ($39.99, scores 57) both outscore it.
More about Know by heart
This site sampled 380 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 102 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
At 5 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
76% start to 4% 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
A heartfelt game about childhood memories, growing up, and the strange feeling of returning to places that no longer feel the same. The atmosphere is very melancholic and intimate, and as the story progresses, the themes of memory and loss become increasingly painful and literal. Overall, it's a good experience, though sometimes a bit too slow and uneventful. Mostly focused on emotional storytelling, exploration...
2 more reviews
"Choice is the ego's rebellion against inevitability" A mesmerizing atmosphere, enchanting soundtrack, and a beautiful yet sorrowful story - one you definitely should not experience if you are depressed or in a fragile emotional state. The beginning gently gives you hope for a happy ending, which only makes the endings feel even heavier, no matter which one you choose. The emotional and touching story feels like...
if depressions are haircuts ice-pick lodge is a hairdresser that only does extensions
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Know by heart scores 52/100 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/685670/know-by-heartReviews 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.