Through Abandoned: The Refuge
Skip · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $0.67.
- Length
- 1.6h 1.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 53% of 257 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
It is 83% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
It’s the new game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Can work on integrated video cards, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 56 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 51 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.67 at 83 percent off still sits 139 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. Through Abandoned: The Underground City ($0.71, scores 49) outscores it, and so does Old Man's Journey ($9.99, scores 55). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Through Abandoned: The Refuge
Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 110 reviews written there were positive, against 53 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
28% start to 14% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I really loved this series and the story/puzzles were interesting, but the game is too buggy to play. every time i solved a puzzle, the screen would freeze. I'd have to leave the game and re enter and re solve the puzzle. A couple of the puzzles had answers so nonsense that even when I looked up a solution, I couldn't figure it out. The ending was very fun and clever though, so maybe play the game on a platform...
1 more review, not recommended
Barely playable with the sheer amount of bugs and softlocks in it. Every time you complete a puzzle you have to pray that the game won't either crash/freeze or softlock you in the puzzle screen. It usually does those two, though, which means you have to restart the game and do the puzzle again. The achievements are barely functional, they only show up after you close the game. Luckily, that'll be happening a lot...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Through Abandoned: The Refuge scores 1/100 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/1012460/through-abandoned-the-refugeReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.