TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight

TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight

Skip · Action · 2021

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 31, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
4.6h 10h to 100%
Value
$4.35/hr
Reviews
76% of 591 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each 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

Holding it back
Value$4.35/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 75% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 428 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

Yukumo is a young girl traversing the world in her beloved airship. Upon arriving at a certain town, her airship breaks down. She decides to explore the town to search for parts for repair; however, the town has fallen silent, with no trace of its inhabitants...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX660, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 47 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 46 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. On the same math Raji: An Ancient Epic ($24.99, scores 42) and Jusant ($24.99, scores 59) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight

This site sampled 428 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 27 percent of everything written about it.

The main story runs 4.6 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 2.2 times as long.

The drop-off

79% start to 8% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 07:57 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight is a calm, atmospheric 3D platformer that places its emphasis on exploration, mood, and gentle progression rather than challenge or narrative complexity. Developed by Orbital Express and published by PLAYISM, the game introduces players to the role of Yukumo, a young airship pilot whose journey is unexpectedly halted when her craft breaks down over a mysterious town wrapped in...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hJan 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I'm going to give it a thumbs up but it's more of a thumbs sideways kind of game. The environment is nice, the ambience is great, I like the music, and the platforming is good. That being said, there are some issues with this game. Some mechanics aren't explained well, the biggest example being the airship sections on maps where you have to destroy either a floating pot or on that you need to drop a bomb in. These...
bronandoRecommendedafter 8.3h3 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I created VRMod for this game and I had an absolute blast playing it in the headset, I almost found all the lanterns ( getting close to 180 now ! ). You can just wander the beautiful cities and look at the night setting in while listening to some chill music or a good audio book, it's pretty relaxing
Pk_CRecommendedafter 15hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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TASOMACHI: Behind the Twilight scores 31/100 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/1015890/tasomachi-behind-the-twilight
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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

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOrbital Express
PublisherPLAYISM
GenreAction
Released2021
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements11