Red Bow
Worth it · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $0.79.
- Length
- 1h 1.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.79/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 350 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl? Play as Roh, a young girl stuck in a bizarre nightmare of dark and eerie creatures.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 51 MB of memory, any, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 71 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.79 at 84 percent off still sits 14 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Yume Nikki (free, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Just Ignore Them ($0.75, scores 37).
More about Red Bow
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 215 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 104 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
81% start to 49% 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
"Red Bow" is a very short and casual narrative adventure about a girl trapped in a dreamlike limbo that tries to release the grieving spirits therein. You can 100% it in around one hour, there a quite a lot of spelling errors in the english translation and the wiritng has weird tonal shifts, but the atmosphere has a vibe in it and the emotional parts do deliver as they should: Somber, but wholesome! Plus there is a...
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Cite this score
Red Bow scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/710600/red-bowReviews 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.