Eliza
Fair · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.6h
- Value
- $2.68/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1366 x 768, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Eliza is a visual novel about an AI counseling program, the people who develop it, and the people who use it. Follow Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey as she reconnects with people from her past, gets to know the people of Seattle who use Eliza for counseling, and decides the course of her future.
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The value story
January 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. 47 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Cat Lady ($8.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats The Stillness of the Wind ($12.99, scores 31).
This site sampled 360 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026.
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 20:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Fantastic! Absolutely compelling and addicting solitaire mini-game. In the face of the oppressive and unceasing flow of tech optimism, I feel an immense powerlessness. Everyday, we endorse these machines and interface with them and feed them our little me-scraps until they're our perfect little mirrors. But I'm sick of my face! Eliza (the game, not the AI) gets people. It gets what makes people tick, how we...
Eliza is not a game for everybody. If you are looking for innovative gameplay, deep progression, challenges to master - this is not the game for that. Eliza is a visual novel, with the tiniest amounts of choice afforded to justify its existence over being a comic or tv show. But as a visual novel, wow, what an absolutely amazing story it tells. I had to check multiple times that it was actually released in 2019...
Eliza is very topical but deeply...underwhelming. The atmosphere is great, the characters are endearing if superficial. The game raises a lot of questions it's not equipped to answer or even say anything of note about them, it just raises the questions. It feels like talking to an executive if that makes any sense; big talk about big topics but very little to say about them.
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Cite this score
Eliza scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/716500/elizaReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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