STASIS: BONE TOTEM

STASIS: BONE TOTEM

Worth it · Narrative · 2023

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $9.94.

Length
11.5h
Value
$1.74/hr
Reviews
93% positive
It needs 50% off ($9.94) to be a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
11.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
19.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.74
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
2,678 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
85
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX11 (shader model 4.0) capabilities. 2 GB + suggested, 16 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...
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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value$1.74/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Length12 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ 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
Refunds3 of 425 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

It has never been cheaper than $7.99. That was March 2025. It has been discounted 36 times in the 3 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Past sales have already crossed the $9.94 BANGER line 22 times.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, My Friend is a Raven (free, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats STASIS ($7.99, scores 57).

The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.

3 of the 425 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2023 to August 2026.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 11.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

70% start to 2% 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

What players say

A Game That Gets Better If You Don't Drop It I almost dropped this game after one hour. Point-and-click gameplay was already annoying me, the underwater industrial setting felt suffocating and monotonous, I didn't care about the characters, and the story gave me very little reason to care about what was happening. Point-and-click is a very specific genre, and I think for it to completely work for me, the puzzle...
Vlad_MolibozhenkoRecommendedafter 12h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
--- TLDR; DO NOT buy this pathetic jank even for a cent --- 4.5/10 Short spoiler-free review after 3 playthroughs and 100% Story and Narration: Ignore the obviously paid out reviews by this incompetent studio who cannot for the love of *** write a coherent line of dialogue that does not sound like the work of a toddler. The dialogue is absolutely carried and compensated by the voice acting albeit over the top...
MatchesMaloneVNot recommendedafter 23h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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STASIS: BONE TOTEM 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/1426010/stasis-bone-totem
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Reviews 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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Critics vs players+8
Critics
85
Players
93
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,678 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTHE BROTHERHOOD
PublisherTHE BROTHERHOOD
GenreNarrative
Released2023
Achievements20