Through The Fragmentation
Fair · Narrative · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a BANGER price before.
Today
$4.99Fair
On its price record
$1.74BANGER
- Length
- 0.9h 3.4h to 100%
- Value
- $5.54/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 238 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.74 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Atmospheric first person adventure game focusing on immersion and exploration. Meet strange characters, discover secrets and try to unfold the mystery of the Fragmentation.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce G 105M 512 MB, 246 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 43 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $1.74 BANGER line 33 times.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, POOLS ($9.79, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats The Norwood Suite ($9.99, scores 58).
More about Through The Fragmentation
1 of the 215 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2021 to August 2026.
The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 3, 3.8 times as long.
The drop-off
80% start to 11% 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
I did enjoy this game, but I HATE after getting an ending you lose all progress on a level when you load a save. Sometimes the endings can be abrupt and you weren't expecting it. I wish you could save anytime in the game, that would easily fix most of the negativity I have towards this game. But now for the better part, I did like that this game does not hold your hand and you can solve things in several ways, which...
2 more reviews
Comfy, immersive game with interesting bird people, cool secrets and a dreamy soundtrack. Short and sweet, with an intriguing mystery!
When I hit the epilogue I went "aaaah" like I'd just finished a satisfying dessert. I wanted a short enigmatic game with lots of open-ended exploration and a strong, distinct, unmistakable personality and this delivered the exact thing I wanted from it. Really looking forward to the follow-up game!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Through The Fragmentation scores 67/100 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/1572040/through-the-fragmentationReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.