Falcon Age

Falcon Age

Skip · Action · 2020

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 35, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
4.2h 8.4h to 100%
Value
$4.76/hr
Reviews
79% of 202 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 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 27 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$4.76/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews79% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 178 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

Bond with a baby falcon and go on an adventure. Falcon Age is a first-person, single-player action adventure where you’ll play as Ara in her fight to reclaim her cultural legacy in the lost art of falcon hunting against a force of automated colonizers.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD R9 290X, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 14 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 36 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Fruitbus ($12.49, scores 70) and Slime Rancher ($19.99, scores 87) both outscore it.

More about Falcon Age

Finishing takes 4.2 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 2.0 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

79% start to 2% 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

What players say

This game is and was very fun to play. It is VR compatible though I played it without a headset. The games design is both realistic and cartoon like. The blend gives it a unique feel and touch. The controls are easy to use and the mechanics for the most part are fun and not complicated. The game is relatively short only really lasting about 10 hours so in that aspect if you're looking for a game to play over the...
LoveGameSelfieRecommendedafter 8.3hOct 2024Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Falcon Age is a compact first-person adventure that stands apart through its unusual focus on the relationship between a human and a falcon. Developed and published by Outerloop Games, it follows Ara, a young woman living on a colony world where automated machines have taken control of valuable resources and disrupted the traditions of the people who once lived more freely. After Ara is imprisoned, an unexpected...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 15h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I played on the PC without VR. In the beginning... --- You're in jail. Why? No idea, they never explain this. You end up saving a baby falcon and caring for it before you escape prison. When you think you made it out, a lady comes out of nowhere and stabs you, knocking you unconscious. You wake up in a tent with the woman there - it's your aunt. Why did she stab you without saying anything? to get a tracker chip out...
SammuNot recommendedafter 4.5h2 found this helpfulRead 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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Falcon Age scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1075080/falcon-age
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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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperOuterloop Games
PublisherOuterloop Games
GenreAction
Released2020
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements28