Phoenotopia: Awakening
Fair · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 33h
- Value
- $0.61/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 1GB+. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Embark on a grand adventure in Phoenotopia! An action-adventure puzzle platformer inspired by the great classics. Meet charming townsfolk, brave the dungeons, and thwart evil in your quest to save your family.
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. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 6 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 7 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, UNSIGHTED ($19.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Owlboy ($19.99, scores 51).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 2 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 33-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 766 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 176 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 33 hours. Doing everything runs 74, 2.2 times as long.
The drop-off
45% start to 2% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 33-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
22 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 11:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It's been a long time since I've played a game that made me want to explore everywhere and talk to all the NPCS. Great worldbuilding and has some touching moments. I kinda wish that they had just a little bit more content near the end.
There has never been such an incredible game that I hate to play. As most reviews will touch on, Phoenotopia has SO much going well for it! And yet, it is severely held back by movement/combat limitations that suck all the fun away. Environs are colorful and unique as the music and characters. The story is engaging, unusual, and brilliantly manages to weave complex lore in at a pace that feels neither sluggish nor...
I can't do it! I just can't do it! I've been redoing this review repeatedly and I can't recommend the game! If you're a regular person and ya like Zelda, play it! Try it! It's awesome for you! It is what it looks like done to a fantastic degree of quality, and I believe that the developers put their hearts into it! But if you're 'off', as a person, as I am, then, again, the game is what it looks like, make that a...
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Cite this score
Phoenotopia: Awakening scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1436590/phoenotopia-awakeningReviews 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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