Lair of the Clockwork God
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.1h 11.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 759 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $14.15 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
About the game
A fast-paced Point-and-Click adventure AND an indie platfomer in one! Join adventurer Ben and wannabe indie darling Dan in a race against time to stop all the Apocalypses happening at the same time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 equivalent or higher, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 34 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. On the same math McPixel ($4.99, scores 63) and There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension ($12.99, scores 77) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Lair of the Clockwork God
84 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
2 of the 346 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 8.1 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
38% start to 2% 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
Not sure I've been as glad that a game was finally over with as with this one. It seems so promising, an explicit point-and-click/platforming mashup, but even with relatively good and fairly often funny writing the annoying, clunky platforming drags it all negative. "I really wanted to like this" as they say in these reviews. Did not manage to.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I would really like to love this game. I am fond of both platformers and classic point and click adventures, but I found myself more frustrated with how the design elements of those games were implemented here more than charmed by the cross-pollination of genres. The platforming controls are abysmal and frustrating more often than not. The adventure game puzzles are well implemented, but the contextual interface is...
I had a love hate relationship with this game but I did manage to complete it and had a few laughs along the way so I recommend it. I found some of the puzzles and platforming difficult so I had to sometimes refer to the very good text guide, no shame in that, some of the puzzles were a bit obtuse. In one of the more difficult platforming sections the little character, Dan, was swearing and cursing at the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Lair of the Clockwork God scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1060600/lair-of-the-clockwork-godReviews 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.