The Expanse: A Telltale Series

The Expanse: A Telltale Series

Skip · RPG · 2023

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 32, under the fair line, at $24.99.

Length
5.5h
Value
$4.54/hr
Reviews
76% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
60% ($9.99)
Deepest seasonal cut
70% ($7.49)
Last discount ended
3 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
5.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
9.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$4.54
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$24.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
76%
2,923 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
75
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2023

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Radeon HD 7790, 2 GB / GeForce GTX 750Ti, 2 GB, 18 GB of storage. Windows only.

Take on the role of Camina Drummer and explore the dangerous, uncharted edges of the Belt. From scavenging wrecked ships in a zero-g environment, to combating fearsome pirates, you make the difficult choices in this latest Telltale adventure. All five episodes playable at launch!
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

Holding it back
Value$4.54/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews76% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length5.5 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
Refunds7 of 800 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 $6.24, set in December 2024. 30 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 46 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Assassin's Creed® Odyssey ($11.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Star Wars Outlaws ($17.49, scores 28).

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 189 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

68% start to 3% 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

Players

17 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 10:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

As a fan of the TV Show, and a huge nostalgia craver, I must say I really enjoyed this game. Having Cara Gee in the voice of Camina is such a huge element of it. The story is very very simple, decisions have good weight in the outcomes and there are nice scenarios, that I particularly enjoyed taking screenshots to. Listening to the music of the TV Show and some space action scenes was very nice. Surprised to see...
mapuRecommendedafter 6.8h6 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I bought this on special for about US$ 12 and it's currently (22-09-2026) on a deeper discount for around half that, so it's definitely worth picking up now! I still think it was worth $12 even though the game is really short as I finished the main story and DLC in just under 8 hours. I think I did almost everything as well because it is a pretty linear game, but despite the slight variations you can create through...
AlmyriaRecommendedafter 7.9hSep 2026Read on Steam
Great new chapter in the Expanse story. If you liked books/series you will enjoy the game.
ZakhRecommendedafter 8.3hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

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The Expanse: A Telltale Series scores 32/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1708010/the-expanse-a-telltale-series
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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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Critics vs players+1
Critics
75
Players
76
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 2,923 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDeck Nine
PublisherTelltale
GenreRPG
Released2023
Achievements35