tERRORbane

tERRORbane

Skip · Narrative · 2022

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 49, under the fair line, at $15.99. Worth it at $4.33, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Apr 2022 (lowest $4.79, Jun 2025).

Length
3h 15.5h to 100%
Value
$5.33/hr
Reviews
87% of 386 positive
It needs 73% off ($4.33) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.33 or less.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each 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

Holding it back
Value$5.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews87% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 341 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

About the game

tERRORbane is a comedic adventure where bugs are your FRIENDS! Enjoy exploring a crazy and outlandish world, full of unique, quirky characters and homages to the history of videogaming, challenge the Developer with your creativity and be the Bane of Errors!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA or AMD Radeon, 4GB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 38 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. On the same math Reventure ($12.34, scores 77) and Mitoza (free, scores 89) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

More about tERRORbane

This site sampled 341 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to August 2026.

3 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.2 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

97% start to 4% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

This game tries to do 1 thing, to be funny. It failed at that. Due to that, it felt like a slog.
norman.lyonNot recommendedafter 2.6hApr 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
this game is short and tedious. I have no other way to describe it. it also fails my 1 dollar 1 hour rule. 4/10 with 5 being passing. I really, really wanted to enjoy it. But, it is far too short for this type of game. I thought it would be a long, unique take on a 4th wall breaking game where it was an rpg taken to life, similar to Lennas Inception. Sadly, its not. You can only do the correct inputs, and there is...
deignNot recommendedafter 1.9hJun 2025Read on Steam
Good annoy the narrator game but would have been better with some additional checkpoints, ability to choose previously made choices when loading a checkpoint.
MonoreaRecommendedafter 21hNov 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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tERRORbane scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1617030/terrorbane
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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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+4
Critics83
Players87
Metacritic critics · 386 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBitNine Studio
PublisherWhisperGames
GenreNarrative
Released2022
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements25