TAMASHII
Worth it · Short indie · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99, a BANGER if it drops to $3.06.
- Length
- 2.1h 4.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 348 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.06 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 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
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About the game
An ancient entity seeking help, a Witch, an unnamed soul and a Twisted Temple. A dark tale about inner discoveries set in a distorted and perverted world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512MB, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 41 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $3.06 BANGER line 34 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 64 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. The nearest things to it, eversion ($4.99, scores 67) and Gray Dawn ($19.99, scores 46), are both worse buys on this math.
More about TAMASHII
This site sampled 243 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
2.1 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.2 times the campaign.
At 2.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
93% start to 3% 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
So deliciously edgy. Fun set-pieces, bizarre secrets, solid platform design, great for a late-night session.
2 more reviews
A genuinely excellent puzzle platformer with very easy-to-grasp mechanics, a distinct visual style and memorable soundscape (provided you don't mind the sound of dentist drills). I know some people have called the writing unsubtle and on-the-nose, but honestly I have no problem with a game that just goes straight for the jugular with its message. Even if I found the story a bit difficult to follow, I definitely...
I could not, for the life of me, get Steam screenshots to work for this game: Steam overlay enabled, Overlay in-game enabled, Re-confirmed Hotkey @ F12 Running Steam as Admin, game normal Running Steam normal, game as Admin Nvidia Overlay Off and On All tests ran on both Steam Beta Opt-in and Vanilla version Win10_i5_3060TUF Also no re-mapping keys, I used controller. Despite this it is a really cool, creepy, retro...
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Cite this score
TAMASHII scores 77/100 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/1026400/tamashiiReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.