Please, Touch The Artwork
Skip · Short indie · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.7h 3.4h to 100%
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 510 positive
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 6 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 cozy puzzler with story. Recreate paintings by applying lines & colors in a specific order. Explore beautiful mazes & collect letters of a poem. Help two sweethearts find a path towards each other. Three games in one. Hints when stuck. 160+ paintings, 3~4 hours, set to a chill soundtrack.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9 compatible, 64 MB VRAM, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 40 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 55 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. On the same math Dogs Organized Neatly ($0.98, scores 97) and A Shelter Full of Cats ($4.99, scores 90) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Please, Touch The Artwork
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 2 of the 380 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.7 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
87% start to 27% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's good! Puzzles with story. Some does needs extra thinking (at least for me, whom not really pro at puzzles). But... All of the achievements not claimed even tho I've done everything. A bug, perhaps. Kinda a bummer.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is simple, fun, and well worth the time and energy if you will give it a try. With simple puzzles that get more challenging as you go, with hints available for those of us who don't want to do quite as much work, this short game is a must for puzzle players and game enjoyers alike. Would highly recommend.
Sometimes you have to go out of your way to try out the alternative games, so you can truly appreciate the actual good ones in comparsion. This "game" is composed from three minigames together: 1. a logic puzzle game utilizing XOR operations telling a story of a semi famous artist, 2. a maze crawler telling typical story of whining woman, 3. and weird mini maze with buttons with another weak story. The only 1. has...
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Cite this score
Please, Touch The Artwork scores 49/100 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/1097100/please-touch-the-artworkReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.