Slender Threads
Fair · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h 7.1h to 100%
- Value
- $4.16/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 634 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.88 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 7 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
In this paranormal point-and-click adventure, a traveling salesman races to stop a string of horrific deaths in a quiet seaside town—before he’s next.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
19 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Fran Bow ($14.99, scores 83) outscores it, and so does Rusty Lake: Roots ($3.99, scores 95). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Slender Threads
Critics scored it 80. Players sit 11 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 353 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to 7% 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
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 09:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's not as challenging as I'd expected, but it's still an enjoyable game. However, it was annoying that I was able to figure out Lena's visitor code from just the torn page, but had to go around and interact with things to trigger the dialogue to provide the code.
2 more reviews
i definitely really liked the game, the puzzles, the voice acting, the paranormal stuff.. not so much the "comedic" dialogue sometimes, but i can look past it. what i sadly didn't like at all is the ending. it was the most disappointing, nonsensical thing one could think of: 1. main game: harvey experiences a massive supernatural adventure. 2. twist: "haha, that was just a made-up story." 3. epilogue: now we see the...
I loved this game! I was sold when I played the demo. The game takes the fun old-school point and click packrat adventure I used to love and adds a fresh face to it. I think the art is beautiful, the characters are fun, the town is legitimately fun to explore and it's nice to have fast travel through the map, especially since I got stuck for a while because I didn't pick up an item I thought was just set dressing...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Slender Threads scores 53/100 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/1116480/slender-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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.