Arise: A Simple Story
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$19.99Fair
On its price record
$3.75BANGER
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $4.88/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 2 GB or AMD Radeon equivalent, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Embark on an emotional journey of losing the love of one's life. Manipulate time, solve puzzles, reshape surroundings as you push forward into the bittersweet recollections of a past life. This is a story about happiness and hardship, joy and sorrow. A story that all of us will one day experience.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was October 2023. It has been discounted 51 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. No sale on record has reached $3.75, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Spirit and the Mouse ($6.39, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats Mail Time ($19.99, scores 46).
The press gave it 79; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 20 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 518 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 252 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 9 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
67% start to 20% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
16 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 19:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Good game with great time manipulation mechanics. The story is also very emotional.
Emotional Rating: 10/10 ; Critical Rating: 9.0/10 Some Things Time Cannot Take Away I first played Arise: A Simple Story six years ago, in the middle of a particularly uncertain and difficult period of my life. It was 2020, when the world itself felt unusually heavy, and somehow, Arise found its way into my life at exactly the right moment. Six years later, I returned to it. I expected this replay to be mostly an...
The no-words storytelling and the visual style are just breathtaking. The movement on two axis (space and time) plays great. A piece of art.
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Cite this score
Arise: A Simple Story scores 57/100 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/866140/arise-a-simple-storyReviews 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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