Old Skies
Worth it · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.69.
- Length
- 12.2h
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Direct3D, OpenGL, DirectX 5, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A time travel adventure spanning two hundred years! Dive into the past with time agent Fia Quinn as she embarks on seven trips through time. History is up for grabs, from the speakeasies of Prohibition to the vicious gangs of the Gilded Age to the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001.
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
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $14.99. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 8 in the 18 months tracked, about 9 weeks apart. $9.69 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Rise of the Golden Idol ($13.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Home ($4.99, scores 17).
This site sampled 366 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
81% start to 3% 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
5 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 16:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Awesome game. Fully voice acted and the actors do a good enogh job. And the story is superb. I loved it all the way to the end.
The gameplay is fairly straightforward modern point and click adventure game formula. You know, chapter based, lots of dialogue a few brain teasers in the mix. It's not like Unavowed where you have more freedom to make choices, solve the puzzles in different ways and alter the story. Some of the linear puzzles can be a bit frustrating but not overly so. The new art style looks smooth and fits with the game well but...
Wow, I hated everything about this game! I am (was?) a huge Wadjet Eye fan since Blackwell and boy, there was so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. - The core conceit of this timey-wimey BS is so toothless and contrived. "Oh no we can't change the timeline or affect the past here" until it suits the story. - Thus the gameplay .. is tedious! It's not an adventure game. It's not even a visual novel...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Old Skies scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1346360/old-skiesReviews 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 1.
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