Tetris® Effect: Connected
Worth it · Short indie · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$19.9950% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $12.12/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 9,078
- Critics
- 93 players 1 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Short indie
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.3h
- To 100%
- 64.1h 19.4x the story
- Achievements
- 43
Price and sales
- Sales
- 46 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $19.99 October 2022
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 120 now
- Recent reviews
- 97% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
46 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $20.47 BANGER line 37 times.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tricky Towers ($5.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Puzzle Together Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzles (free, scores 50).
More about Tetris® Effect: Connected
This site sampled 762 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 22 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 1,425 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.3 hours; clearing it takes 64, which is 19 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
The audio-visual design is absurdly fantastic, what a trip that Journey mode was. Probably my new favorite way to play Tetris. I'm not going to write a review about Tetris.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Tetris® Effect: Connected adds an all-new robust multiplayer expansion to the huge variety of addictive and innovative single-player modes that Tetris Effect is known for, with all-new co-op and competitive online and local multiplayer modes!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti equivalent or greater, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Tetris® Effect: Connected scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1003590/tetris-effect-connectedReviews 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 15, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.