New Tales from the Borderlands
Skip · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 1, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 9.7h
- Value
- $2.06/hr
- Reviews
- 31% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 470 4GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
Decide the fates of altruistic scientist Anu, her ambitious, "streetwise" brother Octavio, and the fierce, frogurt-slinging Fran. Claw and con your way through five thrilling chapters!
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
January 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $19.99. 32 discounts in the 4 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Until Dawn™ ($29.99, scores 40) and Erica ($11.99, scores 40) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 15 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 9.7-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 8 percent of the 334 reviews written there were positive, against 31 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 9.7 hours. Doing everything runs 21, 2.1 times as long.
The drop-off
74% start to 15% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
Now New Tales of the Borderlands might not be good as a game, but it seems to be a good modern torture method. I've been playing games basically all my life on this planet and not once have I played a game as badly written as this absolute train wreck.
Nota Geral | Overall Rating ⭐⭐ New Tales from the Borderlands é uma decepção, principalmente considerando o quão bom o primeiro Tales foi. A Gearbox Software assumiu o desenvolvimento no lugar da Telltale (que fechou as portas antes do lançamento), e o resultado mostra claramente essa transição conturbada. O trio de protagonistas não tem nem metade do carisma de Rhys e Fiona, o humor tenta demais e acerta pouco, e a...
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Cite this score
New Tales from the Borderlands scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1454970/new-tales-from-the-borderlandsReviews 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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