FAR: Changing Tides

FAR: Changing Tides

Worth it · Action · 2022

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $5.99.

Length
5.3h
Value
$1.13/hr
Reviews
93% positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.3h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.13
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$5.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
93%
5,700 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2022

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or Radeon R7 370, 2 GB, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

An atmospheric vehicle adventure that follows the emotional journey of a boy and his ship as he embarks on a voyage to find a new home.
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
Value$1.13/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 92% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
DRMDenuvo
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Length5.3 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds5 of 656 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 $4.99, set in December 2024. 49 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including FAR: Lone Sails ($14.99, scores 73) and Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince ($29.99, scores 58).

This site sampled 656 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 265 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.

Players

14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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FAR: Changing Tides scores 79/100 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/1570010/far-changing-tides
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Reviews 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOkomotive
PublisherFrontier Foundry
GenreAction
Released2022