Radiant One

Radiant One

Skip · RPG · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 46, under the fair line, at $0.99.

Length
0.6h 1.4h to 100%
Value
$1.65/hr
Reviews
76% of 250 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2544 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
Engagement66% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 75% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 78 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

Radiant One is art. It makes you think about the meaning of human existence in today's rapidly changing world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, AMD Radeon HD 6450 or higher/greater, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in April 2023. 6 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 24 percent on value. It is cheaper than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Left on Read (free, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats The Suicide of Rachel Foster ($1.79, scores 26).

More about Radiant One

Steam's global achievement data puts 66 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 169 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 86 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 0.6 hours; clearing it takes 1, which is 2.3 times the campaign.

The drop-off

86% start to 66% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

A fun little storytelling experience, w/ medium-difficulty QTE's. Pros: * Interesting storyline, good music. * Good price point for a short game. Cons: * Follows the proto-Luddite "you tried to do something cool, and now you must suffer" paradigm. Meh: * Sets up and completely finishes the premise - while leaving me hungry for more. TL;DR: If you like stories, and can handle moderate mouse-based QTEs, 9/10; else...
tran_forsRecommendedafter 1.2hJan 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I'm a bit surprise, this is pretty good. Slightly dark themed, simple but quite interesting plot story driven. Gameplay is a bit short.
LattemoreRecommendedafter 1.8hOct 2024Read on Steam
This is genuinely one of the worst mobile ports I have ever seen. The FREE game available on mobile has more content than the paid Steam version, the ''game'' is nothing but quick-time events combined with an uninteresting story. This is also made by the same people as The Day Before. Please do not give these people your money.
RadioSpookiiNot recommendedafter 2.6hFeb 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Radiant One scores 46/100 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/864550/radiant-one
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFntastic
PublisherFntastic
GenreRPG
Released2018
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements11