ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. A BANGER at $5.35, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Feb 2021 (lowest $14.99, Dec 2022).
- Length
- 6.6h 14.8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 410 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.35 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 466 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
A sci-fi adventure full of robot battles, pop music, and emotion. Featuring one of the largest branching storylines ever in a VR game with 15-20 hours of gameplay, Altdeus will place you in the shoes of Chloe, a pilot in humanity's forces fighting massive hostile organisms known as the Meteora.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/AMD Series 400, 2.4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 28 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. No sale on record has reached $5.35, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sable ($6.24, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats The Expanse: A Telltale Series ($24.99, scores 32).
More about ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 17-point gap in the buyer's favour.
None of the 318 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2021 to July 2026.
Finishing takes 6.6 hours; clearing it takes 15, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
80% start to 6% 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
What players say
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos is a story-driven virtual reality adventure that blends science-fiction drama, visual novel storytelling, branching choices, giant-mecha encounters, and immersive character interaction. Developed and published by MyDearest Inc., it places considerably more emphasis on narrative involvement than traditional action mechanics. Its central appeal comes from experiencing an anime-inspired...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Must have VR game in your library if you love visual novels. There isn't must freedom in controls as I'd like but this was a great read.
Good story (stories?), but the experience of trying to get all of the endings is incredibly frustrating. Most cut scenes sections are long and cannot be skipped. This is combined with weak sign posting what actions will lead to a different route. Each by itself would not be a problem, but combined they made me replay sections of the game more than necessary, which took forever because so many of them aren't...
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Cite this score
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1502080/altdeus-beyond-chronosReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.