Eve of Souls: Static Pod

Eve of Souls: Static Pod

Worth it · RPG · 2019 · Early Access

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $2.99.

Length
3.1h
Value
$0.96/hr
Reviews
95% of 505 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
Value$0.97/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 93% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 284 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

[The pod will break soon. Will she survive the nightmare or find the truth?]
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX9.0 VRAM128MB, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

66 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Travellers Rest ($13.49, scores 72).

More about Eve of Souls: Static Pod

This site sampled 284 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 187 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 40 percent of everything written about it.

What players say

Sha is a very lovable (and relatable) character that I quickly got attached to. The game has a great way of depicting the simplest things in a charmful and amospheric way. Both story and gameplay wise there is nothing that I wish the developers would have done differently - it's through and through an amazing game!
minka3818Recommendedafter 30hDec 2024early accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews
The Crooked Man... But with an Anime Vibe Very cute game, has a great psychological horror aspect (reminds me of "Crooked man" and "Sandman" games) but more on the horror and "run and interact" sort of part. It has the skills features that really do influence big parts of the game and choices you make. It isn't too difficult but not a cakewalk either and the story really reels me in as i do have a soft spot for...
SweetRollStealerRecommendedafter 1.2h30 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam
+Artstyle is nice and cute. +Not particularly difficult. -English translation still needs some work. -Lots of action sequences which require fast reactions and input, in a game engine that is not well suited for this type of gameplay.
millsRecommendedafter 4.6h9 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Eve of Souls: Static Pod scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/923910/eve-of-souls-static-pod
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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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperLighTea Fish Studio
PublisherLighTea Fish Studio
GenreRPG
Released2019
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate