Book of Travels
Skip · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 31, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Reviews
- 73% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 780, Radeon RX 550, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Ready your pack, grab your walking stick and step into a world of mystery. Craft your character and immerse yourself in the enchanted lands of Braided Shore.
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $1.24. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 24 in the 5 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 48 percent on value. It is cheaper than 71 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats StarMade ($14.99, scores 15).
Of the 725 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 550 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 244 reviews written there were positive, against 73 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
64% start to <1% 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
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 23:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Book of Travels scores 31/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1152340/book-of-travelsReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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