The Endless Empty
BANGER · RPG · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.99.
- Length
- 3h 5.6h to 100%
- Value
- $1.33/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 321 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 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
A surreal post-life adventure
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 881 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 15 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 31 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hylics ($2.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Everhood ($9.99, scores 86).
$7.17 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about The Endless Empty
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. This site sampled 276 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
26% 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
What players say
This game reminds me of a way cooler & more charming version of an art assignment I once did and received a mid grade for making it too chaotic and abstracted. It's undeniably edgy but still offers a solid and relatable representation for various themes regarding society, philosophy, identity, transience, emotion, and others. The game structure with each chapter revolving around a certain element and fully...
2 more reviews
jesus this was great! This is hands down one of the best games I've played and easily on par with Lisa, Hylics, OFF, etc. I was unsure of this at first- the first chapter being named 'Anxiety' gives off the feel that the game may be too unsubtle, but that fear disappears immediately. Please give this a try!
i absolutely loved every moment of this game. its beautiful trippy story has the perfect balance of strange and touching. if you like the concept then you should get this game. 10/10
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Cite this score
The Endless Empty scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/959410/the-endless-emptyReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.