Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy

Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy

Worth it · Multiplayer · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $11.99.

Length
18.8h
Value
$0.64/hr
Reviews
89% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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Length
18.8h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
24.7h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$0.64
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$11.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
89%
3,469 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
78
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R9 280, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.

The Trine series is back with its biggest adventure! In their fifth outing, the Heroes of Trine are pitted against dastardly and duplicitous villains, who will stop at nothing to seize control of the kingdom. The clock is ticking to save the world of Trine!
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
Reviews89% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$0.64/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length19 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 554 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

The lowest price on record is $11.99, set in December 2025. 24 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Trine 2: Complete Story ($19.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince ($29.99, scores 58).

The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.

3 of the 554 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 193 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

88% start to 7% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

33 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 00:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Trine 5 is a beautiful and fun puzzle-platformer with great co-op gameplay. The puzzles are creative, the visuals are stunning, and it's a great game to play with friends!
☢🅵🆁🅴🅳🅳🆈☢Recommendedafter 3.2h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Really nice game. Beautiful graphics and atmosphere. If you like relaxing puzzle games and like the look and feel of this game i definitely recommend it. I only played solo and can't say anything of the multiplayer part. I would rate it an 8.5
KaisersozeRecommendedafter 9.0hAug 2026Read on Steam
I still can't believe there's another one after this one?! I mean honestly I can't believe there was one after 4. This is a crazy example of an indie franchise sustaining itself because it found a niche that worked for them and I am flabbergasted they just keep the ball rolling. Anyway, that's not really about this game, is it? *ahem* This game really said, you want deep as balls mechanics where skill trees can work...
SpazmanianDevilRecommendedafter 27hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy scores 71/100 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/1436700/trine-5-a-clockwork-conspiracy
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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+11
Critics
78
Players
89
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 3,469 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFrozenbyte
PublisherTHQ Nordic
GenreMultiplayer
Released2023
Achievements62