Keyword: A Spider's Thread
Skip · Short indie · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 41, under the fair line, at $16.99. Fair at $7.53, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2021 (lowest $11.89, Apr 2023).
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $4.47/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 277 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.53 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 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
Become an investigator in Keyword, a narrative thriller where you’ll depend on skills of logical deduction, hacking, and social engineering to solve challenging puzzles as the only means of finding your missing daughter.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850m 2GB Gddr5., 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 37 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cyber Manhunt ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Scene Investigators ($24.99, scores 27).
More about Keyword: A Spider's Thread
Steam's global achievement data puts 36 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 239 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to January 2026.
The drop-off
52% start to 36% 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
This is a pretty fun detective game that has an interesting premise and is pretty fun to go through. If you're very focused on dollar per hour of gameplay you might want to wait until there's a deeper discount, but I personally enjoyed my time in game. Basically it's a little puzzler where you go around going into other people's social media accounts to try to track down your missing daughter. There are a few...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
For me this is a classic example of a game that I want to give a "sideways thumb". It has some really great aspects - the ambience, the concept of the binoculars mechanic, the idea of the detective being in a locked room instead of the victim. However, there are a couple of things that didn't work for me, and that really detracted from the experience: - The bizarre change of pace and style in the middle "spiritual"...
I really wanted to like this game, same creators of Cyber Manhunt, a much better title. This had fun puzzles, but the gameplay, acting, and models were janky and awkward. Can't recommend
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Keyword: A Spider's Thread scores 41/100 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/1393320/keyword-a-spider-s-threadReviews 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 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.