TOEM: A Photo Adventure

TOEM: A Photo Adventure

Worth it · Narrative · 2021

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $1.99.

Reviews
99% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$1.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
99%
12,250 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
79
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2021
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Set off on a delightful expedition and use your photographic eye to uncover the mysteries of the magical TOEM in this hand-drawn adventure game. Chat with quirky characters, solve their problems by snapping neat photos, and make your way through a relaxing landscape!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Narrative game (about 5 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Value, est. length~$0.40/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Reviews99% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 379 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

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in May 2026. 43 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games that feel like it, A Castle Full of Cats ($2.39, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Haven Park ($8.99, scores 82).

79 from critics against 99 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.

This site sampled 379 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 352 reviews written there were positive, against 99 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.

The drop-off

93% start to 24% 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

Players

317 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 15:46 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
TOEM: A Photo Adventure scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 5 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/1307580/toem-a-photo-adventure
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Reviews 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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Critics vs players+20
Critics
79
Players
99
Player favorite. The critics underrated it.
Metacritic critics · 12,250 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSomething We Made
PublisherSomething We Made
GenreNarrative
Released2021
Achievements48