Eternal Strands
Fair · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 18.5h
- Value
- $1.62/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6GB / Intel Arc A580, 24 GB of storage. Windows only.
A next-generation action experience where the elements obey you, the terrain bends to your will, and every victory is entirely your own.
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 $8.99, set in June 2026. 11 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 70 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Kena: Bridge of Spirits ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Immortals Fenyx Rising ($3.99, scores 34).
This site sampled 503 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 51 percent of the 128 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 18.5 hours. Doing everything runs 42, 2.3 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
87% start to 4% rarestNo 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
Players
11 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This game is great. It's like Fable and Dragons Dogma bumped uglies and it birthed a hella wholesome band of adventurers. I had a blast :D
A mixed of Monster Hunter, Breath of the Wild, and Shadow of he Colossus. I'll start by saying the beginning of the story was so boring to me that I just skipped all dialogue. The story is told in very few cutscenes, about 4 2D animations scene, and a lot of VN style dialogue. There are dialogue choices, but they're just flavor and don't do anything. The beginning is kind of boring and give you your main magic...
I enjoyed the story, combat, and being able to use magic to make map traversal more exciting. The only downside is having to grind resources, but otherwise a overall enjoyable game.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Eternal Strands scores 63/100 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/1491410/eternal-strandsReviews 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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