Chinese Parents
Worth it · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99. Typically $5.49 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.50/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 27,174
- Genre rank
- Top 4% RPG
Holding it back: Recent reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 79% over the last 30 days against 91% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4h
- To 100%
- 40.4h 10.1x the story
- Achievements
- 23
Price and sales
- Sales
- 68 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $5.49 March 2025
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 417 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 95% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 68 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, Left on Read (free, scores 55) and Quadrober Simulator ($29.99, scores 28), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Chinese Parents
Players rate it 91 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 79 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 1,063 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 4 hours; clearing it takes 40, which is 10 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 10 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I love that you slowly unlock more benefits with each playthrough and gain a better understanding of how the game works. The only thing that is infuriating is that the chance of gaining a trait is a bit too random. I sometimes had to play through a whole generation just to get some top traits from a specific path that I've already played.
2 more reviews
Pretty fun and difficult. Gameplay loop could get some refinement, but I spend a solid playthrough with it.
Amazing game. As you can see, I have played this game for long periods of time, and i keep playing.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
In this casual sim set in China, you step into the shoes of an average kid from birth towards the end of your high school. Study hard, have fun, make friends and face your ultimate challenge, the “Gaokao”. What will your life be after that? And when you have a child, will you be a Tiger Parent?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Chinese Parents scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/736190/chinese-parentsReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.