Eternal Threads
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 7.2h 9.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.55/hr
- Reviews
- 86% of 910 positive
Full price
Today
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Buy now or wait
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
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, Radeon 7870 / GeForce GTX 660. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 32 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off still sits 33 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 6 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Case of the Golden Idol ($17.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats A Perfect Day ($19.99, scores 61).
More about Eternal Threads
None of the 367 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026.
The drop-off
41% start to 10% 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 wanted to write a review because I feel like this game doesn't have enough reviews for how enjoyable it was! I will try to make my review spoiler free! The game is about exploring a timeline of events in the week prior to a tragedy that takes the lives of 6 people. Your goal is the alter points in the timeline to save them all. The game starts out kind of holding your hand on what to do, but then it lets you...
2 more reviews
Eternal Threads is a story-driven puzzle adventure focused on manipulating time and dealing with the consequences of human decisions. The player takes on the role of an agent sent into the past to prevent a tragic house fire in which six people died. Instead of intervening directly, however, you observe the events of the previous days and gradually alter the decisions made by individual characters. Each change can...
Good. For the most part. I feel like it's worth mentioning that there is basically no gameplay here at all. It's more like an interactive film. In fact, your first 3-4 hours essentially just involve walking around the house and playing through the story to its conclusion. From there, you are free to replay events and change what happens for the six main characters. This was... okay. The way you do this is through...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Eternal Threads scores 71/100 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/1046790/eternal-threadsReviews 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.