The Legend of Tianding
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.30.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The Legend of Tianding is a sidescrolling action game about Liao Tianding, the legendary Taiwanese Folk Hero. Explore the dazzling streets of Colonial Japanese Taiwan in the early 20th century.
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
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in March 2026. 52 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.30. The record reaches that level 29 times.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Oblivion Override ($17.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons ($24.99, scores 58).
81 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 473 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 320 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 5.2 hours. Doing everything runs 11, 2.1 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
86% start to 33% 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
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 04:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Another enjoyable action platformer. It is rather short, but it is quite memorable. The comic book presentation is nice. Soundtrack is quite good. Controls are tight and combat is easy to understand. Glad I gave this game a shot because it was worth my time to experience. This game got me looking into Taiwanese folklore now.
Skeptical at first. But I glad i tried this game , such a simple 2D adventure with its own uniqueness. I recommend
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
The Legend of Tianding scores 69/100 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/1406850/the-legend-of-tiandingReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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