Necrobarista

Necrobarista

Skip · Short indie · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a fair price before.

Today

$19.99Skip

On its price record

$8.24Fair

Length
4.1h 6.9h to 100%
Value
$4.88/hr
Reviews
82% of 1,480 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.24 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 5 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

Raising the score
Engagement19% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$4.88/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 81% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds11 of 551 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

In a back-alley cafe, the dead are granted one last night to mingle with the living. Necrobarista follows a dynamic and diverse cast of characters as they navigate Melbourne's hipstery coffee culture, the questionable ethics of necromancy, and the process of letting go.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 660 or better, ATI 7950 or better, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 29 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 30 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. The Almost Gone ($9.99, scores 49) outscores it, and so does Sayonara Wild Hearts ($6.49, scores 77). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about Necrobarista

Steam's global achievement data puts about 19 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 4.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 11 of the 551 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 272 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 20 percent of everything written about it.

At 4.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.

The drop-off

92% start to 19% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements

What players say

Necrobarista -Overview: N/A -The Good: N/A -The Bad: N/A -The... Confused? N/A -Closing Remarks: Necrobarista is not a video game; not by my standards at least. Thusly, I cannot review it as one. What it is, however, is a fascinating story about life and death. If you expect gameplay, you will be let down, as there is no player choice, no actions you can take, nothing except experiencing the story. This is not a bad...
I Eet DirtRecommendedafter 4.8hAug 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
If I wanted to read a book I'd go to the library and read one for free, not pay 17€ to read on a gaming pc. 0 gameplay, cute animation, it is just a visual novel without even options.
GioporkNot recommendedafter 2.1hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Necrobarista scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/725270/necrobarista
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+1
Critics81
Players82
Metacritic critics · 1,480 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperRoute 59
PublisherRoute 59
GenreShort indie
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements11