Simple Story - Alex
Skip · Narrative · 2018
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $0.99.
- Length
- 0.4h 0.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 62% of 715 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each 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
It's a short interactive story, about Alex, an ordinary loser. He lives a dull life, full of alcohol and misery, but deep in his soul, he always wanted to be a hero. One day, then he leaves his house, Alex accidentally teleported in mystery temple. Temple, the exit from which you should find!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 696 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 82 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Lar (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats - Arcane Raise - ($0.99, scores 8).
More about Simple Story - Alex
Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 62 percent overall, and those are 91 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
42% start to 26% 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
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 14:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Simple Story - Alex scores 10/100 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/814200/simple-story-alexReviews 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.